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 Status Tags
The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life

Shawn Achor

2010 Available Happiness, Leadership
The Human Side of Leadership: Navigating Emotions at Work

Rick Ginsberg and Timothy Gray Davies

2007 Available Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Management, Communication, Distress, Feedback
The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues

Patrick Lencioni

2016 Available Leadership, Teams
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite

Daniel Markovits

2019 Available Equity, Whiteness
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't

Robert I. Sutton, PhD

2007 Available Communication
The Post-Pandemic College

The Chronicle of Higher Education

2020 Available
The Power of Trust: How Top Companies Build, Manage, and Protect It

Natalie Doyle Oldfield

2017 Available Trust
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky

2009 Available Leadership, Change
The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything

Stephen M. R. Covey

2006 Available Trust
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom

2006 Available Leadership
The Three Signs of a Miserable Job or The Truth About Employee Engagement: A Fable for Managers

Patrick Lencioni

2007 Available Management, Employee Engagement
The Tower and the Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing

Richard N. Katz (Ed.)

2008 Available Innovation, Teaching
The Two-Body Problem: Dual-Career-Couple Hiring Practices in Higher Education

Lisa Wolf-Wendel, Susan B. Twombly, and Suzanne Rice

2003 Available Family
There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow

Jeffrey J. Selingo

2016 Available Parenting
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

Adam Grant

2021 Available Change
Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

2011 Available
Three Keys to Development: Defining and Meeting Your Leadership Challenges

Henry Browning and Ellen Van Velsor

1999 Available Leadership, Change, Ideas into Action
Thrive: The Facilitator's Guide to Radically Inclusive Meetings

Dr. Mark Smutny

2019 Available Diversity, Meetings, Communication, Facilitation, Management, Conflict
Tracking Your Development

Kelly M. Hannum and Emily Hoole

2009 Available Change, Ideas into Action
Trans* in College: Transgender Students' Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion

Z Nicolazzo

2017 Available LGBTQIA, Diversity, Gender