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
Return on Experience: Learning Leadership at Work

Jeffrey Yip

2009 Available Leadership, Ideas into Action
Academic Leadership Day by Day: Small Steps that Lead to Great Success

Jeffrey L. Buller

2011 Available Leadership, Department Chairs, Associate Deans, Deans
The Essential Academic Dean or Provost: A Comprehensive Desk Reference

Jeffrey L. Buller

2015 Available Associate Deans, Deans
Positive Academic Leadership: How to Stop Putting Out Fires and Start Making a Difference

Jeffrey L. Buller

2013 Available Leadership, Department Chairs, Associate Deans, Deans, Crisis Management
There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow

Jeffrey J. Selingo

2016 Available Parenting
iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy - and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood

Jean M. Twenge, PhD

2017 Available Family
When No One Answers the Call

Jane S. Halonen and Dana S. Dunn

2017 Available Department Chairs
Learning to Lead: A Handbook for Postsecondary Administrators

James R. Davis

2003 Available Department Chairs, Associate Deans, Deans, Leadership
So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo

2019 Available Diversity, Equity, Communication, Microaggressions, Race, Whiteness
How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi

2019 Available Race, Bias, Diversity, Equity, Social Identity
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi

2016 Available Bias, Race
Accountability: Taking Ownership of Your Responsibility

Henry Browning

2012 Available Ideas into Action
Three Keys to Development: Defining and Meeting Your Leadership Challenges

Henry Browning and Ellen Van Velsor

1999 Available Leadership, Change, Ideas into Action
HBR Guide to Coaching Employees

Harvard Business Review

2015 Available Coaching, Employee Engagement
HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across

Harvard Business Review

2013 Available Management
20 Minute Manager: Managing Projects

Harvard Business Review

2014 Available Management, Project Management
20 Minute Manager: Managing Up

Harvard Business Review

2014 Available Management, Trust
20 Minute Manager: Creating Business Plans

Harvard Business Review

2014 Available Management
20 Minute Manager: Presentations

Harvard Business Review

2014 Available Management, Communication
HBR's 10 Must Reads: On Strategic Marketing

Harvard Business Review

2013 Available