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
Starter Kit: New to the Department Chair

The Chronicle of Higher Education

2018 Available Leadership, Department Chairs
Starter Kit: New to the Faculty

The Chronicle of Higher Education

2018 Available Pre-Tenure, Tenure-Track, Work/Life Balance, Mentoring
Starter Kit: New to the Provost's Role

The Chronicle of Higher Education

2019 Available Leadership
Strategic Diversity Leadership: Activating Change and Transformation in Higher Education

Damon A. Williams

2013 Available Diversity, Leadership
Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership

Edward Morrison, Scott Hutcheson, Elizabeth Nilsen, Janyce Fadden, and Nancy Franklin

2019 Available Leadership
Supporting Innovators: Trust, Purpose, Partnership

Michael T. Mitchell

2018 Available Leadership, Innovation, Ideas into Action
Surviving A Layoff: New Opportunities

Dahlstrom and Company

2000 Available Change
Sway: The irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior

Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman

2008 Available Change
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard

Chip Heath and Dan Heath

2010 Available Change
Talent Conversations: What They Are, Why They're Crucial, and How to Do Them Right

Roland Smith and Michael Campbell

2014 Available Leadership, Ideas into Action
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

Malcolm Gladwell

2019 Available Communication, Negotiation
Teaching Effectively with Zoom: A Practical Guide to Engage Your Students and Help Them Learn

Dan Levy

2020 Available Teaching
Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen

2014 Available Feedback
The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family: A Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni

2008 Available Family, Leadership
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Stephen R. Covey

1989 Available
The Academic Chair's Handbook

Daniel W. Wheeler, Alan T. Seagren, Linda Wysong Becker, Edward R. Kinley, Dara D. Mlinek, and Kenneth J. Robson

2008 Available Department Chairs
The Chronicle Productivity Guide to Leading a Department

The Chronicle of Higher Education

2019 Available Leadership, Department Chairs
The Chronicle Productivity Guide to Leaving the Academy

The Chronicle of Higher Education

2018 Available Change
The Chronicle Productivity Guide to Managing the Tenure Track

The Chronicle of Higher Education

2018 Available Pre-Tenure, Negotiation, Family, Networking, Tenure-Track
The Chronicle Productivity Guide to Research

The Chronicle of Higher Education

2018 Available Research, Project Management, Dual-Career