Here are some books I have read and recommend. They are in no particular order.
- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
- Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet
- Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal
- Measure What Matters by John Doerr
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. A new translation by Gregory Hays.
- Principles by Ray Dalio
- Range by David Epstein
- The Design of Design by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
- Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- MCDP series (Marine Corps Doctrinal Publications) by U.S. Marine Corps
- The One Thing by Gary Keller with Jay Papasan
- Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg
- Secrets of Special Ops Leadership by William A. Cohen, Ph.D.
- The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch
- let my people go surfing by Yvon Chouinard