Leadership Library

This Leadership Library is offered as a resource to current and aspiring faculty leaders. It includes materials that have been collected through people’s recommendations, past campus speakers and programs, and relevant scholarship from faculty colleagues at KU. The library has not been further curated by the Office of Faculty Affairs, and no endorsement should be assumed by the inclusion (or absence) of particular materials. We hope the Leadership Library will be a resource that stimulates personal growth and thought-provoking engagement with varied perspectives. We also welcome additional recommendations at facultyaffairs@ku.edu.

Title Author Publication Date Sort descending Status Tags
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

John Doerr

2018 Available Leadership, Feedback, Management
Leading Transformation: How to Take Charge of Your Company's Future

Nathan Furr, Kyle Nel, and Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy

2018 Available Leadership
Readings for Diversity and Social Justice

Maurianne Adams, Warren J. Blumenfeld, D. Chase J. Catalano, Kari "Safire" DeJong, Heather W. Hackman, Larissa E. Hopkins, Barbara J. Love, Madeline L. Peters, Davey Shlasko, and Ximena Zúñiga (eds.)

2018 Available Diversity, Bias, Race, Disability, Social Identity, Gender, LGBTQIA
HBR's 10 Must Reads: On Mental Toughness

Harvard Business Review

2018 Available Self-Care, Perseverance, Happiness, Distress
Emotional Intelligence: Influence + Persuasion

Harvard Business Review

2018 Available Emotional Intelligence, Leadership
Emotional Intelligence: Authentic Leadership

Harvard Business Review

2018 Available Emotional Intelligence, Leadership
Educated: A Memoir

Tara Westover

2018 Available Family
How Higher-Ed Leaders Derail: A Survival Guide for Leaders

Patrick Sanaghan

2018 Available Leadership, Department Chairs, Associate Deans, Deans
Reconceptualizing Faculty Development in Service-Learning/Community Engagement: Exploring Intersections, Frameworks, and Models of Practice

Becca Berkey, Cara Meixner, Patrick M. Green, and Emily A. Eddins (Eds.)

2018 Available Service Learning, Community Engagement
Supporting Innovators: Trust, Purpose, Partnership

Michael T. Mitchell

2018 Available Leadership, Innovation, Ideas into Action
The Chronicle Productivity Guide to Leaving the Academy

The Chronicle of Higher Education

2018 Available Change
The Chronicle Productivity Guide to Managing the Tenure Track

The Chronicle of Higher Education

2018 Available Pre-Tenure, Negotiation, Family, Networking, Tenure-Track
The Chronicle Productivity Guide to Teaching & Presenting

The Chronicle of Higher Education

2018 Available Teaching
The Chronicle Productivity Guide to Service & Collegiality

The Chronicle of Higher Education

2018 Available Service, Evaluation, Pre-Tenure, Mentoring
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

Brené Brown PhD, MSW

2018 Available Leadership, Communication, Emotional Intelligence
The Chronicle Productivity Guide to Research

The Chronicle of Higher Education

2018 Available Research, Project Management, Dual-Career
The Chronicle Productivity Guide to Writing & Publishing

The Chronicle of Higher Education

2018 Available Time Management
Ideas into Action Executive Reader, 2019 Edition

Center for Creative Leadership

2019 Available Leadership, Ideas into Action
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Jenny Odell

2019 Available Work/Life Balance
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

Malcolm Gladwell

2019 Available Communication, Negotiation