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
There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow

Jeffrey J. Selingo

2016 Available Parenting
The Two-Body Problem: Dual-Career-Couple Hiring Practices in Higher Education

Lisa Wolf-Wendel, Susan B. Twombly, and Suzanne Rice

2003 Available Family
The Tower and the Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing

Richard N. Katz (Ed.)

2008 Available Innovation, Teaching
The Three Signs of a Miserable Job or The Truth About Employee Engagement: A Fable for Managers

Patrick Lencioni

2007 Available Management, Employee Engagement
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom

2006 Available Leadership
The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything

Stephen M. R. Covey

2006 Available Trust
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky

2009 Available Leadership, Change
The Power of Trust: How Top Companies Build, Manage, and Protect It

Natalie Doyle Oldfield

2017 Available Trust
The Post-Pandemic College

The Chronicle of Higher Education

2020 Available
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't

Robert I. Sutton, PhD

2007 Available 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
The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues

Patrick Lencioni

2016 Available Leadership, Teams
The Human Side of Leadership: Navigating Emotions at Work

Rick Ginsberg and Timothy Gray Davies

2007 Available Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Management, Communication, Distress, Feedback
The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life

Shawn Achor

2010 Available Happiness, Leadership
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go so Their Children Can Succeed

Jessica Lahey

2015 Available Family
The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni

2000 Available Leadership
The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni

1998 Available Leadership
The Five Disfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni

2002 Available Leadership, Teams, Conflict
The Five Disfunctions of a Team (Manga Edition): An Illustrated Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni

2002 Available Leadership, Teams
The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter

Michael D. Watkins

2013 Available Leadership