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 Sort ascending Tags
Managing Leadership Stress

Vidula Bal, Michael Campbell, and Sharon McDowell-Larsen

2008 Available Leadership, Self-Care, Family, Work/Life Balance, Ideas into Action
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

Adam Grant

2021 Available Change
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

2016 Available Change
Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us

Daniel H. Pink

2009 Available
Educated: A Memoir

Tara Westover

2018 Available Family
The Essential Academic Dean or Provost: A Comprehensive Desk Reference

Jeffrey L. Buller

2015 Available Associate Deans, Deans
Adapting to Organizational Change

Center for Creative Leadership

2013 Available Change, Ideas into Action
Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance

Marcus Buckingham

2007 Available Strengths
Changing Yourself and Your Reputation

Talula Cartwright

2009 Available Change, Ideas into Action
Becoming a Leader-Coach: A Step-by-Step Guide to Developing Your People

Johan Naudé and Florence Plessier

2014 Available Leadership, Coaching, Ideas into Action
Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty

Committee on Gender Differences in Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty

2010 Available Gender, Pre-Tenure, Tenure-Track, Mid-Career
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

David Allen

2001 Available Time Management, E-mail
Getting to Yes with Yourself: How to Get What You Truly Want

William Ury

2015 Available Happiness, Negotiation, Family
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go so Their Children Can Succeed

Jessica Lahey

2015 Available Family
Beating the Imposter Syndrome

Portia Mount and Susan Tardanico

2014 Available Ideas into Action, Imposter Syndrome
Behind the Diversity Numbers: Achieving Racial Equity on Campus

W. Carson Byrd

2021 Available Diversity, Race, Equity
Surviving A Layoff: New Opportunities

Dahlstrom and Company

2000 Available Change
Inteligencia Emocional 2.0: Estrategias para Conocer y Aumentar su Coeficiente

Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves

2009 Available Emotional Intelligence
A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

Ron Suskind

1998 Available Race
The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues

Patrick Lencioni

2016 Available Leadership, Teams