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
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law	Haben Girma	2019	Available	Gender, Disability, Women, Communication, Perseverance
So You Want to Talk About Race	Ijeoma Oluo	2019	Available	Diversity, Equity, Communication, Microaggressions, Race, Whiteness
When I Was White: A Memoir	Sarah Valentine	2019	Available	Bias, Family, Social Identity, Race, Whiteness
How to Be an Antiracist	Ibram X. Kendi	2019	Available	Race, Bias, Diversity, Equity, Social Identity
How to Fight Anti-Semitism	Bari Weiss	2019	Available	Bias, Social Identity
Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces	Karen Catlin	2019	Available	Leadership, Evaluation, Diversity, Equity, Management, Communication, Feedback, Employee Engagement
Thrive: The Facilitator's Guide to Radically Inclusive Meetings	Dr. Mark Smutny	2019	Available	Diversity, Meetings, Communication, Facilitation, Management, Conflict
Developing Faculty Mentoring Programs: A Comprehensive Handbook	David Kiel	2019	Available	Mentoring
Starter Kit: New to the Provost's Role	The Chronicle of Higher Education	2019	Available	Leadership
Idea Lab: Cultivating Academic Leaders	The Chronicle of Higher Education	2019	Available	Leadership, Department Chairs, Associate Deans, Deans
Preparing for Tough Conversations: How to Set the Stage for Major Change on Your Campus	Lee Gardner	2019	Available	Communication, Crisis Management
The Chronicle Productivity Guide to Leading a Department	The Chronicle of Higher Education	2019	Available	Leadership, Department Chairs
Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership	Edward Morrison, Scott Hutcheson, Elizabeth Nilsen, Janyce Fadden, and Nancy Franklin	2019	Available	Leadership
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom	Bettina L. Love	2019	Available	Race, Teaching, Equity
The Diversity and Inclusion Handbook	Sondra Thiederman	2019	Available	Diversity, Teams, Employee Engagement
Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University	Kathleen Fitzpatrick	2019	Available	Innovation, Communication
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite	Daniel Markovits	2019	Available	Equity, Whiteness
It's the Manager	Jim Clifton and Jim Harter	2019	Available	Strengths, Management, Change
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed	Lori Gottlieb	2019	Available	Self-Care, Change, Perseverance
The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth	Amy C. Edmondson	2019	Available	Leadership, Teams