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 Sort descending Publication Date Status Tags
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't

Jim Collins

2001 Available
Finding Your Balance

Joan Gurvis and Gordon Patterson

2004 Available Work/Life Balance, 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
Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Others to Build an Inclusive Society

john a. powell

2012 Available Race, Diversity, Equity, Social Identity
Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom (2nd Edition)

John C. Bean

2011 Available Teaching, Communication
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

John Doerr

2018 Available Leadership, Feedback, Management
Islam: What Non-Muslims Should Know

John Kaltner

2016 Available Diversity, Bias
Wooden on Leadership

John Wooden

2005 Available Leadership, Teams
Departments that Work: Building and Sustaining Cultures of Excellence in Academic Programs

Jon F. Wergin

2003 Available Leadership, Department Chairs, Evaluation, Employee Engagement
Manage Your Boss

Jonathan Vehar

2016 Available Communication
No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement

Joseph P. Shapiro

1993 Available Disability
Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces

Karen Catlin

2019 Available Leadership, Evaluation, Diversity, Equity, Management, Communication, Feedback, Employee Engagement
HBR Guide to Office Politics

Karen Dillon

2015 Available Leadership, Conflict
Ongoing Feedback: How to Get It, How to Use It

Karen Kirkland and Sam Manoogian

1998 Available Feedback, Management, Ideas into Action
What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

Kate Fagan

2017 Available Self-Care, Parenting
Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University

Kathleen Fitzpatrick

2019 Available Innovation, Communication
Turn the Tide: Rise Above Toxic, Difficult Situations in the Workplace

Kathy Obear, Ed. D.

2016 Available Conflict, Teams
Tracking Your Development

Kelly M. Hannum and Emily Hoole

2009 Available Change, Ideas into Action
Social Identity: Knowing Yourself, Leading Others

Kelly M. Hannum

2007 Available Social Identity, Ideas into Action
Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

Ken Robinson

2013 Available Strengths, Change