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 Sort ascending	Status	Tags
The Diversity and Inclusion Handbook	Sondra Thiederman	2019	Available	Diversity, Teams, Employee Engagement
Preparing for Tough Conversations: How to Set the Stage for Major Change on Your Campus	Lee Gardner	2019	Available	Communication, Crisis Management
Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University	Kathleen Fitzpatrick	2019	Available	Innovation, Communication
Developing Faculty Mentoring Programs: A Comprehensive Handbook	David Kiel	2019	Available	Mentoring
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know	Malcolm Gladwell	2019	Available	Communication, Negotiation
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law	Haben Girma	2019	Available	Gender, Disability, Women, Communication, Perseverance
So You Want to Talk About Race	Ijeoma Oluo	2019	Available	Diversity, Equity, Communication, Microaggressions, Race, Whiteness
It's the Manager	Jim Clifton and Jim Harter	2019	Available	Strengths, Management, Change
When I Was White: A Memoir	Sarah Valentine	2019	Available	Bias, Family, Social Identity, Race, Whiteness
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom	Bettina L. Love	2019	Available	Race, Teaching, Equity
How to Be an Antiracist	Ibram X. Kendi	2019	Available	Race, Bias, Diversity, Equity, Social Identity
How to Fight Anti-Semitism	Bari Weiss	2019	Available	Bias, Social Identity
Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces	Karen Catlin	2019	Available	Leadership, Evaluation, Diversity, Equity, Management, Communication, Feedback, Employee Engagement
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite	Daniel Markovits	2019	Available	Equity, Whiteness
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy	Jenny Odell	2019	Available	Work/Life Balance
Thrive: The Facilitator's Guide to Radically Inclusive Meetings	Dr. Mark Smutny	2019	Available	Diversity, Meetings, Communication, Facilitation, Management, Conflict
The Chronicle Productivity Guide to Leading a Department	The Chronicle of Higher Education	2019	Available	Leadership, Department Chairs
The Chronicle Productivity Guide to Writing & Publishing	The Chronicle of Higher Education	2018	Available	Time Management
Readings for Diversity and Social Justice	Maurianne Adams, Warren J. Blumenfeld, D. Chase J. Catalano, Kari "Safire" DeJong, Heather W. Hackman, Larissa E. Hopkins, Barbara J. Love, Madeline L. Peters, Davey Shlasko, and Ximena Zúñiga (eds.)	2018	Available	Diversity, Bias, Race, Disability, Social Identity, Gender, LGBTQIA
The Chronicle Productivity Guide to Research	The Chronicle of Higher Education	2018	Available	Research, Project Management, Dual-Career