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
HBR's 10 Must Reads: The Essentials

Harvard Business Review

2011 Available Management
Helping Faculty find Work-Life Balance: The Path Toward Family-Friendly Institutions

Maike Ingrid Philipsen and Timothy B. Bostic

2010 Available Family, Work/Life Balance, Gender, Mid-Career, Pre-Tenure
How Higher-Ed Leaders Derail: A Survival Guide for Leaders

Patrick Sanaghan

2018 Available Leadership, Department Chairs, Associate Deans, Deans
How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi

2019 Available Race, Bias, Diversity, Equity, Social Identity
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Jenny Odell

2019 Available Work/Life Balance
How to Fight Anti-Semitism

Bari Weiss

2019 Available Bias, Social Identity
How to Form a Team: Five Keys to High Performance

Kim Kanaga and Michael E. Kossler

2001 Available Teams, Ideas into Action
How to Launch a Team: Start Right for Success

Kim Kanaga and Sonya Prestridge

2002 Available Teams, Ideas into Action
How to Treat New Ideas

David Magellan Horth and Michael T. Mitchell

2017 Available Change, Ideas into Action
Idea Lab: Cultivating Academic Leaders

The Chronicle of Higher Education

2019 Available Leadership, Department Chairs, Associate Deans, Deans
Ideas into Action Executive Reader, 2019 Edition

Center for Creative Leadership

2019 Available Leadership, Ideas into Action
iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy - and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood

Jean M. Twenge, PhD

2017 Available Family
Influence for Nonprofit Leaders

Deborah Friedman

2013 Available Leadership, Ideas into Action
Influence: Gaining Commitment, Getting Results

Harold Scharlatt and Roland Smith

2011 Available Leadership, Ideas into Action
Influencer: The Power to Change Anything

Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler

2008 Available Change
Inteligencia Emocional 2.0: Estrategias para Conocer y Aumentar su Coeficiente

Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves

2009 Available Emotional Intelligence
Interpersonal Savvy: Building and Maintaining Solid Working Relationships

Center for Creative Leadership

2013 Available Leadership, Communication, Ideas into Action
Introduction to Service-Learning Toolkit: Readings and Resources for Faculty

Campus Compact

2003 Available Teaching, Service Learning
Is Everyone Really Equal? An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education

Özlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo

2017 Available Bias, Race, Whiteness, Non-violent Communication
Islam: What Non-Muslims Should Know

John Kaltner

2016 Available Diversity, Bias