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 Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni

2000 Available Leadership
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 Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues

Patrick Lencioni

2016 Available Leadership, Teams
The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family: A Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni

2008 Available Family, Leadership
Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni

2006 Available Silos, Leadership
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

Parker J. Palmer

2000 Available
Destructive Organizational Communication: Processes, Consequences, & Constructive Ways of Organizing

Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik and Beverly Davenport Sypher (eds.)

2009 Available Communication, Conflict, Microaggressions, Distress, Teams
Is Everyone Really Equal? An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education

Özlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo

2017 Available Bias, Race, Whiteness, Non-violent Communication
Type Talk at Work: How the 16 Personality Types Determine Your Success on the Job

Otto Kroeger with Janet M. Thuesen and Hile Rutledge

2002 Available Strengths
Sway: The irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior

Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman

2008 Available Change
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom

2006 Available Leadership
Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times

Nick Montgomery and carla bergman

2017 Available
Leading Transformation: How to Take Charge of Your Company's Future

Nathan Furr, Kyle Nel, and Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy

2018 Available Leadership
The Power of Trust: How Top Companies Build, Manage, and Protect It

Natalie Doyle Oldfield

2017 Available Trust
HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations

Nancy Duarte

2012 Available Communication
Fix Your Climate: A Practical Guide to Reducing Microagressions, Microbullying, and Bullying in the Academic Workplace

Myron R. Anderson, Ph.D. and Kathryn S. Young, Ph.D.

2020 Available Microagressions
Supporting Innovators: Trust, Purpose, Partnership

Michael T. Mitchell

2018 Available Leadership, Innovation, Ideas into Action
Active Listening: Improve Your Ability to Listen and Lead

Michael H. Hoppe

2014 Available Communication, Ideas into Action, Leadership
Leading Dispersed Teams

Michael E. Kossler and Sonya Prestridge

2004 Available Teams, Ideas into Action
Do You Really Need a Team?

Michael E. Kossler and Kim Kanaga

2001 Available Teams, Ideas into Action