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 Sort ascending Author Publication Date Status Tags
The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family: A Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni

2008 Available Family, Leadership
Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen

2014 Available Feedback
Teaching Effectively with Zoom: A Practical Guide to Engage Your Students and Help Them Learn

Dan Levy

2020 Available Teaching
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

Malcolm Gladwell

2019 Available Communication, Negotiation
Talent Conversations: What They Are, Why They're Crucial, and How to Do Them Right

Roland Smith and Michael Campbell

2014 Available Leadership, Ideas into Action
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard

Chip Heath and Dan Heath

2010 Available Change
Sway: The irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior

Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman

2008 Available Change
Surviving A Layoff: New Opportunities

Dahlstrom and Company

2000 Available Change
Supporting Innovators: Trust, Purpose, Partnership

Michael T. Mitchell

2018 Available Leadership, Innovation, Ideas into Action
Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership

Edward Morrison, Scott Hutcheson, Elizabeth Nilsen, Janyce Fadden, and Nancy Franklin

2019 Available Leadership
Strategic Diversity Leadership: Activating Change and Transformation in Higher Education

Damon A. Williams

2013 Available Diversity, Leadership
Starter Kit: New to the Provost's Role

The Chronicle of Higher Education

2019 Available Leadership
Starter Kit: New to the Faculty

The Chronicle of Higher Education

2018 Available Pre-Tenure, Tenure-Track, Work/Life Balance, Mentoring
Starter Kit: New to the Department Chair

The Chronicle of Higher Education

2018 Available Leadership, Department Chairs
Starter Kit: New to Tenure

The Chronicle of Higher Education

2018 Available Associate Professors, Mid-Career
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Simon Sinek

2009 Available Leadership
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi

2016 Available Bias, Race
Social Identity: Knowing Yourself, Leading Others

Kelly M. Hannum

2007 Available Social Identity, Ideas into Action
So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo

2019 Available Diversity, Equity, Communication, Microaggressions, Race, Whiteness
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

Rebekah Taussig

2020 Available Disability