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10 books recommended · 21 episodes
Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“It's a great book. It's called The Psychology of Military Incompetence. It's a great book written by a guy that was World War II, who was a British guy.”
Why: It offers insight into why certain military leaders fail by examining incompetence through the lens of psychology.
On the Psychology of Military Incompetence by Norman F. Dixon
Host on Jocko Podcast564: Overcoming Fear, Making Movies, and the Way of the Warrior Kid. With McG.
“I described the battle in the book Into the Fire co-authored with Corporal Dakota Meyer, who fought valiantly there.”
Into the Fire by Dakota Meyer
Host on Jocko Podcast562: The Deadly Cost of Bad Leadership. Lessons From Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. With Bing West
“My friend Ben Milligan wrote this book called By Water Beneath the Walls. Absolutely incredible book. I don't know if you've read it. It's an absolutely phenomenal book about where the SEALs came from…”
Why: It's an absolutely phenomenal book about where the SEALs came from and why they exist.
By Water Beneath the Walls by Benjamin H. Milligan
Host on Jocko Podcast562: The Deadly Cost of Bad Leadership. Lessons From Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. With Bing West
“The Marine Corps manuals are outstanding and I actually, because warfighting, which is it's one of the best pieces of reading a human can do i mean i covered in one of the first podcast…”
Why: He calls it one of the best pieces of reading a human can do because it is concise, clear, and simple.
Warfighting by United States Marine Corps
Host on Jocko Podcast546: The Myth of Being in Control: Marine Corps Doctrine on Command and Control
“So, I was reading through the Marine Corps doctrinal publication, six, MCDP, six. It's called Command and Control, and like most Marine Corps manuals, which are just outstanding, it had some great points on leadership…”
Why: He recommends it because it is outstanding, concise, clear, and provides valuable leadership knowledge.
Command and Control by United States. Marine Corps
Host on Jocko Podcast546: The Myth of Being in Control: Marine Corps Doctrine on Command and Control
“T. E. Lawrence Lawrence of Arabia famous British guy archaeologist he's a military officer he became famous during the era of Revol in 1916 and 1918 against the Ottoman Empire and he had a a quote in his book The Seven Pillars of Wisdom…”
Why: He uses the quote to validate his point about the intangible aspects of leadership.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence
Host on Jocko Podcast539: Elevate From The Gray Slop In Your Head.
“We got well we got put your legs on by Rob Jones speaking of blast injuries losing both your legs above the knee That's Rob Jones very interesting the fact that when…”
Why: The host recommends it as a book about overcoming blast injuries.
Put Your Legs On by Rob Jones
Host on Jocko Podcast536: Ramadi: Sacrifice, Brotherhood, and The Return. w/ William "Spanky" Gibson
“Also a bunch of books put your legs on by Rob Jones need lead by Dave Burke I've written a bunch of books…”
Put Your Legs On by Rob Jones
Host on Jocko Podcast535: Keeping Things Humorous Can Keep You Humble. With Kingsley A. Pinderhughes III aka KingPix Media.
“In his book the officer as a leader and he says quote any man Whatever be his rank can command who has the courage to try and the brain to see clearly what other men miss…”
The Officer as a Leader by S. L. A. Marshall
Host on Jocko Podcast561: The Art Of Command. Action, Initiative, and Judgement.
“the pitfalls or potential pitfalls associated with this scientific and ordered approach are captured well in this excerpt from Edmund Fuller's review of James McGregor Burns recent book leadership…”
Leadership by James MacGregor Burns
Host on Jocko Podcast561: The Art Of Command. Action, Initiative, and Judgement.
“This is a similar take to David Hackworth, and he's got his whole thing that he wrote about in a about face of people's cups getting filled up…”
Why: It offers insight into combat stress and the limits of human courage.
About Face by David H. Hackworth
Host on Jocko Podcast548: The Importance of Morale and How to Develop It.
Their own books, or books they discussed with the author. Not counted as recommendations.
“willingness to admit mistakes um i guess we readiness to accept responsibility wrote a book about that extreme ownership…”
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast563: The 3 Traits Every Great Leader Must Have According to Gen. Matthew Ridgway
“And this is the basis of the book that you wrote, which is called The Village. So give us a breakdown on how these kind of early VSO…”
The Village by Bing West
Host on Jocko Podcast562: The Deadly Cost of Bad Leadership. Lessons From Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. With Bing West
“And that right there is an excerpt from a book called cat 5 the The 2033 War, written by Bing West.”
Why: It draws on all his experiences in combat and highest levels of defense to give lessons learned.
Cat 5 by Bing West
Host on Jocko Podcast562: The Deadly Cost of Bad Leadership. Lessons From Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. With Bing West
“You write another book called One Million Steps, which is a really interesting title because, you know, for people that have been around IEDs…”
One Million Steps by Bing West
Host on Jocko Podcast562: The Deadly Cost of Bad Leadership. Lessons From Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. With Bing West
“I wrote in Leadership Strategy and Tactics, the most underrated skill of leadership is listening.”
Leadership Strategy and Tactics by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast561: The Art Of Command. Action, Initiative, and Judgement.
“you can probably, the problem with the cheapest would be to go to the library and get a copy of extreme ownership.”
Why: It is a cheap and effective way to start implementing leadership principles.
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast560: Leadership Is A Skill. Train It. With Jamie Cochran.
“That's why we write a book called, the dichotomy of leadership. We have to be balance in everything.”
The Dichotomy of Leadership by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast557: Stop Waiting for the Perfect Answer. Go.
“Many of the stories that lay for an I wrote about an extreme ownership and that academy of leadership involved Miguel directly and his men.”
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast553: Becoming Brothers Through Battle, Death, and Honor in Ramadi. With Miguel "Pitbull" Santana.
“And that right there is an excerpt from a book called Unheard Voices, the fight for Ramadi, a soldier's memoir from combat outpost Falcon.”
Why: It offers an authentic look at what it was like on the ground in Ramadi.
Unheard Voices by Miguel N. Santana
Host on Jocko Podcast553: Becoming Brothers Through Battle, Death, and Honor in Ramadi. With Miguel "Pitbull" Santana.
“what if I take ownership and they still move me out of that position? Yeah, that can happen. That can happen in the book Extreme Ownership when I was like, hey, this is my fault.”
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast551: Relationships Over Rank. Trust Over Authority
“Extreme Ownership. That caught him in leadership. Leadership, charging tactics. This one equals freedom field manual. And. wave the warrior kid, Mikey in the track.”
Discipline Equals Freedom by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast550: The Company Commander's Playbook for Leadership
“Extreme Ownership. That caught him in leadership. Leadership, charging tactics. This one equals freedom field manual. And. wave the warrior kid, Mikey in the track.”
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast550: The Company Commander's Playbook for Leadership
“You know, we wrote the book, The Code, The Evaluation, the Protocol. What's good about that book is it gives you a way to grade yourself, right?”
Why: It gives you a way to grade yourself on things you are going to be judged in.
The Code. the Evaluation. the Protocols by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast549: Everyone is Judging—and Being Judged. Breaking Down Self-Awareness, Humility, and Respect
“I reference leadership strategy and tactics quite a few times today written by me. So you can check that one out.”
Leadership Strategy and Tactics by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast547: How to Master Uncertainty. With (Ret) SEAL Commander, Rich Diviney
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“and yes, the answer is both, and yes, you can be a person that is naturally gifted at public speaking. There's some people that they're just really good at public speaking. And you could be someone that is not naturally gifted at public speaking.”
“I wrote a series of books called The Way of the Warrior Kid, and the process in the book that the kid goes through is his kind of a wimpy kid can't do any pull-ups.”
Way of the Warrior Kid : From Wimpy to Warrior the Navy SEAL Way by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast547: How to Master Uncertainty. With (Ret) SEAL Commander, Rich Diviney
“Check out some books, masters of uncertainty by rich to Vinnie. Check out. Put your legs on by Rob Jones, check out Need to Lead by Dave Burke, and then you can check out a bunch of books that I've written. I reference leadership strategy and tactics quite a few times today written by me.”
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast547: How to Master Uncertainty. With (Ret) SEAL Commander, Rich Diviney
“Discipline goes for you and feel many all by the way. Haven't mentioned that one in a bit. Extreme ownership that got to be leadership leadership strategy and tactics.”
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast546: The Myth of Being in Control: Marine Corps Doctrine on Command and Control
“And I put this in, in way of the warrior kit it's in there, but you know, my oldest daughter came home from school in jail, I'm stupid. : I'm like, why do you think you're stupid?”
Way of the Warrior Kid : From Wimpy to Warrior the Navy SEAL Way by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast541: Skills, Struggle, and Responsibility. With Jimmy May.
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“And this is actually in the warrior kid books like the kid wants to mark wants a new bike Yeah, and Uncle J. : Exactly. : Oh, you can't get a new bike, but we can get an old bike and we can rebuild it…”
“I've written a bunch of books, stream ownership, like Automated Ship, Leadership Strategy and Tactics, just want to go through the field manual.”
Leadership Strategy and Tactics by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast538: The Legendary Speech on How Leaders Should Lead. Major C.A. Bach Back, 1917.
“I've written a bunch of books, stream ownership, like Automated Ship, Leadership Strategy and Tactics, just want to go through the field manual.”
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast538: The Legendary Speech on How Leaders Should Lead. Major C.A. Bach Back, 1917.
“I've written a bunch of books too. Read a bunch of kids books on on your.”
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast537: We See What's Happening But Miss What's Going On.
“And so, hey, that's another good Leif wrote about an extreme ownership where, same thing, like, we had army guys. Chris Kyle sees a guy with a scoped weapon in a building…”
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast536: Ramadi: Sacrifice, Brotherhood, and The Return. w/ William "Spanky" Gibson
“I've written a bunch of books bunch of leadership books And a bunch of kids books so check those out if you want…”
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast535: Keeping Things Humorous Can Keep You Humble. With Kingsley A. Pinderhughes III aka KingPix Media.
“I've written a bunch of books bunch of leadership books And a bunch of kids books so check those out if you want…”
Discipline Equals Freedom by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast535: Keeping Things Humorous Can Keep You Humble. With Kingsley A. Pinderhughes III aka KingPix Media.
“Isn't it crazy I wrote about this in leadership strategy in tactics? : Like however many years later 70 years later.”
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast554: Maximum Efficiency On The Front Lines of Battle and Life
“We got need to lead by Dave Burke. I've written a bunch of books over in a bunch of kids books.”
Why: To learn the principles and skills of leadership.
Leadership Strategy and Tactics by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast548: The Importance of Morale and How to Develop It.
“When I wrote Displink was freedom, field manual. : I remember kind of like, you know, you kind of feel like a meadhead, right?”
Discipline Equals Freedom by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast563: The 3 Traits Every Great Leader Must Have According to Gen. Matthew Ridgway
“Also, jocostory.com. Just one equals freedom. It's not durable goods. I don't know if it's durable or not, but pretty durable as far as T-shirts go.”
Discipline Equals Freedom by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast561: The Art Of Command. Action, Initiative, and Judgement.
“This is Jocco podcast number 553 with Equal Charles and me, Jocco willing, good evening, echo.”
Discipline Equals Freedom by Jocko Willink
Host on Jocko Podcast553: Becoming Brothers Through Battle, Death, and Honor in Ramadi. With Miguel "Pitbull" Santana.
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“In more modern times, like nowadays, Daniel Kahneman, he wrote a book called Thinking Fast and Slow. He breaks it down to these two systems.”
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Host on Jocko Podcast539: Elevate From The Gray Slop In Your Head.
“Steve Peters. He wrote a book in 2012 called The Chimp Paradox. And then he wrote a children's book called My Hidden Chimp, and then he wrote a guidebook to go along with that in 2018…”
The Chimp Paradox by Steve Peters
Host on Jocko Podcast539: Elevate From The Gray Slop In Your Head.
“This is the catch 22, the book catch 22. if you were sane enough to say, I don't want to fly on these raids, then, well, it doesn't make sense.”
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Host on Jocko Podcast539: Elevate From The Gray Slop In Your Head.
“This latter view : was that of General Sir Archibald P. Wayvelle and his expounded in his published lectures in General's and General Ship.”
Generals and Generalship by Archibald Percival Wavell Earl of Wavell
Host on Jocko Podcast563: The 3 Traits Every Great Leader Must Have According to Gen. Matthew Ridgway
“This view is ably developed by Colonel Sherman L. Kaiser, US Army retired in his book, The American Concept of Leadership.”
The American Concept of Leadership by Sherman L. Kiser
Host on Jocko Podcast563: The 3 Traits Every Great Leader Must Have According to Gen. Matthew Ridgway
“In his seminal work on the subject of fifth discipline, Peter Seng or Seng, one of the leading teachers and proponents of learning organizations defines a learning organization as one quote,…”
The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge
Host on Jocko Podcast544: How Good Men Lose Their Moral Compass
“As neuroscientist Jonah Layer explains in how we decide, this is where prefrontal cortex really demonstrates its unique strengths. It is the only brain region able to take an abstract principle…”
How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
Host on Jocko Podcast539: Elevate From The Gray Slop In Your Head.
“As successful business consultant and CEO David rock explains in the book your brain works The degree of activation of a limbic system is the degree of deactivation of the prefrontal cortex…”
Your Brain at Work by David Rock
Host on Jocko Podcast539: Elevate From The Gray Slop In Your Head.
“I've recounted the incident in some detail in my book's soldier. Recently, however, published memorals of German generals…”
Soldier by Matthew B. Ridgway
Host on Jocko Podcast563: The 3 Traits Every Great Leader Must Have According to Gen. Matthew Ridgway