Developed at West Point, the Leader Challenge (LC) method for developing leaders is part of a profession-wide effort to improve learning and leader development—to make them more context-based, collaborative, and problem-centered. Each Leader Challenge session engages participants in a difficult leadership decision as described by the junior officer who actually experienced it. In Leader Challenge sessions, Army professionals with varying levels of experience engage with each other in small-group conversations about the situation to enhance their understanding of ethical leadership. Participants in Leader Challenge sessions learn not only from the true scenario and their conversations about it, but also from the LC process itself, which highlights the learning value of engaging in meaningful conversations about real problems with our fellow professionals
Fellow Leader Developer: We are honored to support your leader-development program. Each CCLPD has been designed to foster 15-45 minutes of quality professional conversation. The video clips and articles provide you and your team with meaningful topics to talk about. The suggested questions are ones that we find interesting, but you should guide your conversations to address the issues most important to your team.
Dedicating time to develop your subordinate leaders makes a powerful, positive impact that will ripple across every level in your unit.
We commend you and are here to support you!
The Starfish and the Spider
Upstream
East of Chosin
Leadership is Language
A Passion for Leadership
Warrior Politics
Platoon Leader
This Kind of War
Turn the Ship AroundHere are some book recommendations to get you started
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You (10th Anniversary Edition)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
The Alchemist
The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Becoming
A Bell for Adano
Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death
The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior, Second Edition ( Paperback)
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Ender's Game (The Ender Quintet)
The EQ Leader: Instilling Passion, Creating Shared Goals, and Building Meaningful Organizations through Emotional Intelligence
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win (New Edition)
The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth
Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management (including featured article "Leading Change," by John P. Kotter)
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership (with featured article "What Makes an Effective Executive," by Peter F. Drucker)
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (with bonus article "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by Clayton M. Christensen)
HBR'S 10 Must Reads: The Essentials
Hope Unseen: The Story of the U.S. Army's First Blind Active-Duty Officer
How To Win Friends and Influence People
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations (J-B Leadership Challenge: Kouzes/Posner)
Leadership Is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say--and What You Don't
Leadership Presence (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
Leading Change, With a New Preface by the Author
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Legacy
The Lost Art of Listening, Second Edition: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Now, Discover Your Strengths
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions
Outliers: The Story of Success
Platoon Leader: A Memoir of Command in Combat
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (1) (Politics of Place)
Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Radical Inclusion: What the Post-9/11 World Should Have Taught Us About Leadership
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
Starship Troopers by Heinlein, Robert A.(May 15, 1987) Paperback
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds
Thinking, Fast and Slow
This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules
Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen
What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success
The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force CommanderResources
We listed some of the resources junior officers have found most helpful in their development. If there are others you think we should add, let us know!
Junior Officer (our site)
Harvard Business Review
Forbes
Tactical Decision Games
3×5 Leadership/
From the Green Notebook
The Military Leader
The Army Leader (British Army)
The Angry Staff Officer
The Company Leader
The Field Grade Leader
The Leaders Huddle
Coaching for Leaders
The John Maxwell Leadership Podcast
Work Life with Adam Grant
HBR Ideacast
Dear HBR
Lead to Win
The Modern War Institute
Up First (News)
The Daily (News)
The Look and Sound of Leadership
The Army Officer’s Guide to Mentoring
The Army NCO’s Guide to Mentoring
The New Commanders’ Starter Kit
173d IBCT SmartbookResources
This is the area for Branch-specific Resources
Leader Challenge
Developed at West Point, the Leader Challenge (LC) method for developing leaders is part of a profession-wide effort to improve learning and leader development—to make them more context-based, collaborative, and problem-centered. Each Leader Challenge session engages participants in a difficult leadership decision as described by the junior officer who actually experienced it. In Leader Challenge sessions, Army professionals with varying levels of experience engage with each other in small-group conversations about the situation to enhance their understanding of ethical leadership. Participants in Leader Challenge sessions learn not only from the true scenario and their conversations about it, but also from the LC process itself, which highlights the learning value of engaging in meaningful conversations about real problems with our fellow professionals
Orig Leader Challenge
Developed at West Point, the Leader Challenge (LC) method for developing leaders is part of a profession-wide effort to improve learning and leader development—to make them more context-based, collaborative, and problem-centered. Each Leader Challenge session engages participants in a difficult leadership decision as described by the junior officer who actually experienced it. In Leader Challenge sessions, Army professionals with varying levels of experience engage with each other in small-group conversations about the situation to enhance their understanding of ethical leadership. Participants in Leader Challenge sessions learn not only from the true scenario and their conversations about it, but also from the LC process itself, which highlights the learning value of engaging in meaningful conversations about real problems with our fellow professionals
CCLPD
Fellow Leader Developer: We are honored to support your leader-development program. Each CCLPD has been designed to foster 15-45 minutes of quality professional conversation. The video clips and articles provide you and your team with meaningful topics to talk about. The suggested questions are ones that we find interesting, but you should guide your conversations to address the issues most important to your team.
Dedicating time to develop your subordinate leaders makes a powerful, positive impact that will ripple across every level in your unit.
We commend you and are here to support you!
CCLPD
Fellow Leader Developer: We are honored to support your leader-development program. Each CCLPD has been designed to foster 15-45 minutes of quality professional conversation. The video clips and articles provide you and your team with meaningful topics to talk about. The suggested questions are ones that we find interesting, but you should guide your conversations to address the issues most important to your team.
Dedicating time to develop your subordinate leaders makes a powerful, positive impact that will ripple across every level in your unit.
We commend you and are here to support you!