Over the last several years we have been fielding the request for an UFMCS reading list. This last spring, we did some compiling and the list below is what we concluded to be our 'Core' and 'Supplemental' Reading Lists. Each reading comes with a notation to the right identifying the learning area each resides (see legend below).
Disclaimer: this list is not all inclusive of titles that 'teach' in these areas, but are what we have deemed the best material to be used at the school house through OUR internal research.
Any questions please let me know.
Adam
Legend:
SA - Self-awareness
CT - Critical Thinking
GTM - Group-think Mitigation
CE - Cultural Empathy
UFMCS Core Course Reading List:
Values Americans Live By, L Roberts Kohl (Article, SA, CT, GTM, CE)
Understanding Yourself and Others, Linda V Berens (Handout, SA)
Sources of Power, Gary Klein (CT)
Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman (CT)
The Allegory of the Cave, Plato (Handout, CT)
The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge, (CT)
Groupthink, Irving L. Janis (CT, GTM)
Asking the Right Questions: a Guide to Critical Thinking, M Neil Browne & Stuart M Keeley, Eleventh Edition (CT)
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently and Why, Richard E. Nisbett (CT, CE)
The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations, Dietrich Doerner, (CT)
Operational Culture for the Warfighter, Salmoni & Holmes-Eber (CE)
Culture and Organizations: Software of the Mind, Hofstede, Hofstede,& Minkov (CE)
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches; the Riddles of Culture, Harris (CE, CT)
Winning Decisions, Russo & Schoemaker (CT)
The Thinkers Toolkit, Jones (CT)
Theory Properly Constructed, Ganske (CT)
Shakespeare in the Bush, Bohannon (CE)
Understanding Global Culture, Gannon (CE)
Red Teaming, Bryce Hoffman (SA, CT, GTM, CE)
Red Team, Micah Zemko (SA, CT, GTM, CE)
Supplemental Reading List:
Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions that Matter, Steven Johnson (CT)
A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas, Warren Burger (CT)
Rebel Talent, Francesca Gino (SA, CT)
Think Wrong: How to Conquer the Status Quo and Do Work That Matters, John Bailenburg, Mike Burn (CT)
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, Adam Grant (GTM, CT)
The Systems Thinker, Albert Rutherford (CT)
Thinking in Systems, Meadows (CT)
Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes-But Some Do, Matthew Syed (CT)
Think Like a Freak, Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (CT)
Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing, Jamie Holmes (CT)
Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb (CT, SA)
Chaos: Making a New Science, James Gleick, (CT)
The Cyber Effect, Mary Aiken (CE,CT,SA)
The Hunt for Vulcan, Thomas Levenson (CT)
Moneyball, Michael Lewis, (CT)
The Undoing Project, Michael Lewis (CT)
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Klaus Schwab (CE)
Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku (CT,SA)
A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein, (CE)
Sociocultural Systems, Gharajedaghi (CE)
Brief, McCormack (CT, SA)
The Power of Intuition, Gary Klein (CT)
The Wiles of War, Haichen (CE, CT)