The initial Coast Guard reading list included the following books:
The Founding Fathers on Leadership: Classic Teamwork in Changing Times
Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us
Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success
Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach
The Coast Guard at War: Vietnam, 1965-1975
Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership
The Contrarian's Guide to Leadership (J-B Warren Bennis Series)
They Had To Go Out: True Stories of America's Coastal Lifesavers
Churchill on Leadership: Executive Success in the Face of Adversity
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Character in Action: The U.S. Coast Guard on Leadership
Getting Them to Give a Damn: How to Get Your Front Line to Care about Your Bottom Line
So Others May Live: Coast Guard's Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy
On Becoming a Leader: The Leadership Classic
Power Mentoring: How Successful Mentors and Proteges Get the Most Out of Their Relationships
The Coast Guard in World War I: An Untold Story
The Pendleton Disaster off Cape Cod: The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History
Commodore Ellsworth P. Bertholf: First Commandant of the Coast Guard