LeadershipThe memoir and leadership book of Jack Tilley, who rose from Vietnam-era private to the 12th Sergeant Major of the Army. Written with Army historian Dan Elder, it ends every chapter with the lesson behind the story.
LeadershipFormer Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best on 28 years of policing, becoming the first Black woman to lead the department and resigning in 2020 over budget cuts. Written as a leadership book as much as a memoir.
LeadershipFormer Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper's insider critique of American police culture, drawn from 34 years in San Diego and Seattle. It's confessional, combative and still argued over.
LeadershipThe memoir of former Dallas Police Chief David O. Brown, written with Michelle Burford a year after a sniper killed five of his officers. It's about loss, faith and a cop's slow change from enforcer to community builder.
LeadershipThe memoir of Ray Kelly, the longest-serving police commissioner in New York's history, from a milkman's son on the Upper West Side to the man who built the NYPD's counterterrorism operation after 9/11. Blunt, unapologetic and argued over.
LeadershipBill Bratton's first memoir, written with Peter Knobler in 1998, about a career spent turning around troubled police agencies, culminating in his 27 months as New York police commissioner. Part memoir, part management book.
Business BooksA leadership book by Bill Bratton and Zachary Tumin arguing that organizations which work across their own boundaries, with partners, customers and citizens, thrive, and those which won't, die. Its case studies run from policing to Alcoa to Rio's schools.
LeadershipBill Bratton's full-career memoir, written with Peter Knobler, covering five decades and four big-city departments. It defends the profession, sets out his precision policing approach and takes on race and police reform directly.
Business BooksA practical leadership manual written by a sitting sheriff, Loudoun County's Mike Chapman, built on the same STEP-UP program he runs in his own office. It's aimed at police and sheriff's leaders at every level, elected or appointed.
LeadershipNat Glover's memoir of growing up in segregated Jacksonville, joining the police department that once refused to protect him, and becoming the first Black sheriff elected in Florida since Reconstruction. It's also one of the few books written by a…
AmericaWhy the post-Cold War trade order is breaking down and America is bringing manufacturing home, from the pandemic and the chip shortage to war, shipping attacks and rare earths, and why the suppliers, workers and test labs behind each factory…
Decision MakingSome management habits never get anybody fired, and they still burn through good people. A boss who needs 100 percent of the information, a review that dredges up a mistake fixed nine months ago, and a meeting built to pat…
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