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
The Chronicle Productivity Guide to Service & Collegiality

The Chronicle of Higher Education

2018 Available Service, Evaluation, Pre-Tenure, Mentoring
The Chronicle Productivity Guide to Teaching & Presenting

The Chronicle of Higher Education

2018 Available Teaching
The Chronicle Productivity Guide to Writing & Publishing

The Chronicle of Higher Education

2018 Available Time Management
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

Michael Bungay Stanier

2016 Available Leadership, Coaching
The College Administrator's Survival Guide

C. K. Gunsalus

2006 Available Leadership, Department Chairs, Associate Deans, Deans, Conflict
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

2017 Available Race, Equity, Whiteness
The Department Chair as Transformative Diversity Leader: Building Inclusive Learning Environments in Higher Education

Edna Chun and Alvin Evans

2015 Available Diversity, Department Chairs
The Diversity and Inclusion Handbook

Sondra Thiederman

2019 Available Diversity, Teams, Employee Engagement
The Engaged Scholar: Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today's World

Andrew J. Hoffman

2021 Available Research
The Essential Academic Dean or Provost: A Comprehensive Desk Reference

Jeffrey L. Buller

2015 Available Associate Deans, Deans
The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility: Thriving Organizations - Great Results

Marilyn Gist, PhD

2020 Available Leadership, Employee Engagement
The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

Amy C. Edmondson

2019 Available Leadership, Teams
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization

Peter Senge, Art Kleiner, Charlotte Roberts, Richard Ross, and Bryan Smith

1994 Available Leadership
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization

Peter M. Senge

1990 Available Leadership, Teams
The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter

Michael D. Watkins

2013 Available Leadership
The Five Disfunctions of a Team (Manga Edition): An Illustrated Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni

2002 Available Leadership, Teams
The Five Disfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni

2002 Available Leadership, Teams, Conflict
The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni

1998 Available Leadership
The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni

2000 Available Leadership
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go so Their Children Can Succeed

Jessica Lahey

2015 Available Family