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 ascending	Publication Date	Status	Tags
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change	Stephen R. Covey	1989	Available
Principle-Centered Leadership	Stephen R. Covey	1990	Available	Leadership, Work/Life Balance
The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything	Stephen M. R. Covey	2006	Available	Trust
Making Creativity Practical: Innovation That Gets Results	Stan Gryskiewicz and Sylvester Taylor	2003	Available	Project Management, Ideas into Action
The Diversity and Inclusion Handbook	Sondra Thiederman	2019	Available	Diversity, Teams, Employee Engagement
Feedback That Works: How to Build and Deliver Your Message	Sloan R. Weitzel	2000	Available	Feedback, Ideas into Action
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action	Simon Sinek	2009	Available	Leadership
Feedback That Works for Nonprofit Organizations	Shera Clark	2013	Available	Feedback, Ideas into Action
The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life	Shawn Achor	2010	Available	Happiness, Leadership
When I Was White: A Memoir	Sarah Valentine	2019	Available	Bias, Family, Social Identity, Race, Whiteness
On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life	Sara Ahmed	2012	Available	Race, Bias, Diversity, Whiteness
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
A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League	Ron Suskind	1998	Available	Race
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
Leadership Wisdom: Discovering the Lessons of Experience	Rola Ruohong Wei and Jeffrey Yip	2008	Available	Leadership, Ideas into Action
What Does It Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy	Robin DiAngelo	2012	Available	Whiteness, Diversity, Race
White Fragility: Why It's so Hard for White People to Talk about Racism	Robin DiAngelo	2018	Available	Whiteness, Bias, Communication, Race
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't	Robert I. Sutton, PhD	2007	Available	Communication
Facilitating a Collegial Department in Higher Education: Strategies for Success	Robert E. Cipriano	2011	Available	Department Chairs, Associate Deans, Deans, Leadership
The Human Side of Leadership: Navigating Emotions at Work	Rick Ginsberg and Timothy Gray Davies	2007	Available	Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Management, Communication, Distress, Feedback