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 Sort descending Tags
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization

Peter M. Senge

1990 Available Leadership, Teams
Managing Ambition

Center for Creative Leadership

2013 Available Ideas into Action
The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything

Stephen M. R. Covey

2006 Available Trust
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Simon Sinek

2009 Available Leadership
Strategic Diversity Leadership: Activating Change and Transformation in Higher Education

Damon A. Williams

2013 Available Diversity, Leadership
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
Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies

Diana G. Oblinger (Ed.)

2012 Available Teaching, Innovation
Developing Your Intuition: A Guide to Reflective Practice

Talula Cartwright

2004 Available Leadership, Ideas into Action
Managing Conflict with Direct Reports

Barbara Popejoy and Brenda J. McManigle

2002 Available Conflict, Management, Employee Engagement, Ideas into Action
The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family: A Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni

2008 Available Family, 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
Turn the Tide: Rise Above Toxic, Difficult Situations in the Workplace

Kathy Obear, Ed. D.

2016 Available Conflict, Teams
The Two-Body Problem: Dual-Career-Couple Hiring Practices in Higher Education

Lisa Wolf-Wendel, Susan B. Twombly, and Suzanne Rice

2003 Available Family
What Does It Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy

Robin DiAngelo

2012 Available Whiteness, Diversity, Race
The Tower and the Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing

Richard N. Katz (Ed.)

2008 Available Innovation, Teaching
Direction, Alignment, Commitment: Achieving Better Results Through Leadership

Cynthia McCauley and Lynn Fick-Cooper

2015 Available Leadership, Teams, Ideas into Action
Managing Conflict with Peers

Talula Cartwright

2003 Available Conflict, Ideas into Action
Tracking Your Development

Kelly M. Hannum and Emily Hoole

2009 Available Change, 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