Your winter reading list.

To help you develop as a financial manager, several colleagues recommended the following books.

From Donna Brown, Chief, Resource Management Division, DoD Education Agency:

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levkt and Stephen J. Dubner.

From Dale Fruchtnicht, Federal Executive Institute:

Preparing for the Future: Strategic Planning in the U.S. Air Force, by Michael Barzelay and Colin Campbell, which received NAPA's 2004 Brownlow Award. Dr. Barzelay has presented for us and has written a very clear overview of a successful planning process.

From Tom Ruckdaschel, MBA and Office of the Secretary of Defense policy analyst:

An Ethic of Citizenship for Public Administration by Terry L. Cooper

Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman

First In, Last Out: Leadership Lessons from the New York Fire Department by John Salka and Barret Neville.

From Commander Phil Candreva, Coordinator of the Navy Practical Comptrollership Course, Naval Postgraduate School, whose fist breaks into categories:

Classics:

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835 (many contemporary printings available)

Administrative Behavior by Herbert A. Simon

Speaking Truth to Power by Aaron B, Widavsky.

Public Management:

Public Management As Art, Science, and Profession (Public Administrtion and Public Policy) by Laurence E. Lynn

Breaking Through Bureaucracy: A New Vision for Managing in Government by Michael Barzelay

Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government by Mark H. Moore.

Public Budgeting:

The Federal Budget: Politics, Policy, Process, revised edition, by Allen Schick

The New Politics of the Budgetary Process, 4th edition, by Aaron Widavsky and Naomi Caiden.

DoD-Specific:

Budgeting and Financial Management for National Defense by Jerry McCaffrey and L. R. Jones

Tranforming Department of Defense Financial Management: A Strategy for Change, Find Report by Stephen Freidman, Institute for Defense, report to the Secretary of Defense, 13 April 2001

Congressional Abdication on War and Spending by Louis Fisher

Preparing for the Future: Strategic Planning in the U.S. Air Force by Michael Barzelay and Colin Campbell.

And from the ASMC Professional Development Department's John T. Raines:

Shut Up, Stop Whining and Get a Life by Larry Winget. It's full of down-to-earth advice from the "pit bull of personal development" on almost every aspect of one's work life.