Leadership Library
All of these books are available for check out in our Office in the Wood Center:
By: Larraine R. Matusak
ISBN: 078-7903-051
Credibility, empowerment, and collaboration are not just ideas for business and political leaders - they are concepts that ordinary citizens can grasp to bring out the leader within them and to affect positive social change at the grassroots level. Larraine R. Matusak, a noted expert on leadership development, describes leadership as a body of knowledge that can be taught and learned, and sets forth a practical set of tools and resources to provide the knowledge and skills necessary for effective leadership. Using diverse examples of citizens who have accepted the responsibility to lead, Matusak shows how individuals who are without a title or position of power can still pursue their passion and fit leadership opportunities to their specific talents.
The Leadership Challenge
By: James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
ISBN: 078-7956-783
An inspirational and practical handbook, this expanded revision of a bestselling manual originally published in 1987 offers sound advice to corporate leaders and entrepreneurs, to managers and employees and to aspiring leaders in retail, manufacturing, government, community, church and school settings. Drawing on interviews and a questionnaire survey of more than 3000 leaders, the authors identify five fundamental practices of exemplary leadership: challenge the status quo; inspire a shared vision; enable others to act; model the way forward by setting an example; tap individuals' inner drives by linking rewards and performance. Kouzes, chairman and CEO of TPG/Learning Systems, and Posner, managing partner of Santa Clara University's Executive Development Center in California, write insightful, down-to-earth, jargon-free prose. This new edition has been substantially updated to reflect the challenges of shrinking work forces, rising cynicism and expanded telecommunications. An appendix includes the author's Leadership Practices Inventory, a tool for assessing leadership behavior.
Handbook of Leadership Development
Edited by: Cynthia McCauley, Russ Moxley and Ellen Van Velsor
ISBN: 078-7965-294
The Center for Creative Leadership is the world's largest institution devoted to leadership research and education. In this handbook over a dozen talented professionals join forces to outline the Center's philosophy and strategies. They present six proven methods of leadership development and illustrate how those methods have been successfully used in the real world. They give organizations a systemic approach and a means for evaluating the impact of their initiatives. And they pragmatically address such urgent topics as leadership growth for women and people of color, cross-cultural leadership development, and the development of global leaders.
Major in Success
By: Patrick Combs
ISBN: 158-0085-326
Combs goes into the tough territory facing many young people heading into (or out of) college, offering the recent graduate's perspective and the experience of extensive lecturing on campus as he discusses planning goals, enthusiasm, and reality as a peer, not another authority figure.
The Ascent of a leader
By: Bill Thrall, Bruce McNicol and Ken McElrath
ISBN: 078-7947-660
Become the leader people are proud to follow by opening yourself to the influences that develop character: enduring relationships with friends, family, and God. Solidly based on Christian values, this practical, visionary, and hope-filled book guides readers through a step-by-step process for developing both personal character and the network of important relationships that enable character to win out, even in the face of setbacks, adversity, and temptations to take short cuts. Leadership is about character, the authors assert, and character weaves values like integrity, honesty, and selfless service into the fabric of our lives, organizations, and cultures. The Ascent of a Leader is written for ordinary people-mothers, husbands, bosses, secretaries, pastors, teachers, and students-who want to develop extraordinary character, find and follow God's plan for their lives, and lead others where they need to go. We all have innate leadership potential. To maximize it, we must do much more than develop performance-based skills, the authors assert. We must consciously choose who and what we allow to influence us, find and develop our humility, and build enduring relationships with colleagues, family, friends, and God. They offer engaging real-life examples to show how we can grow into our true potential as leaders and inspire us to "make a difference in the 21st century-in our families, our communities, our companies, our government, and even our world."
Leading Beyond the Walls
Edited by: Frances Hesslebein, Marshall Goldsmith and Iain Somerville
ISBN: 068-7064-155
In Leading Beyond the Walls, twenty-nine great thinkers examine leaders adept at establishing partnerships, alliances, and networks both within and outside their organizations. They address the challenge of leading in an age when the old rules and conventional boundaries no longer exist. Peter F. Drucker, Stephen R. Covey, Peter M. Senge, Jim Collins, Noel Tichy, Regina E. Herzlinger, C.K. Prahalad, and Sally Helgesen are among those who explore new ways of building relationships, new approaches to strategy and marketing, new models of employee relations, and other innovations. Their essays herald a new world where success comes to those willing to move beyond the walls of tradition and inertia.
The Language of Leadership
By: Roger Soder
ISBN: 078-7943-606
The Language of Leadership explores the powerful role that language plays in helping leaders, no matter what their field, support their position and create a climate of credibility and legitimacy. In this persuasive and compelling book, Roger Soder draws from a wealth of historical and literary sources and uses illustrative examples from contemporary leadership practices. The Language of Leadership examines the art of developing principled and persuasive arguments and devotes particular attention to the process of gathering evidence on which to support an argument. Throughout the book, Soder advances practical ideas for cultivating public trust, openness and inquiry, and stresses the vital need for modeling democratic values in speech and conduct. Most importantly, the book addresses the myriad moral and political dilemmas that leaders face and shows how to use language and other principled tactics for coping with dissension and conflict when crises erupt.
The Absolutes of Leadership
By: Philip Crosby
ISBN: 078-7909-424
In his eleventh book, world-renowned quality management and leadership consultant Philip Crosby takes his message to the top of the organization to define the qualities and vision of that key figure in business, government, education, and Little League alike, the leader. Leaders, he says, come in five versions, based on their work patterns, and wear an infinite number of hats. And while a leader may not recognize the personal characteristics that cause people to follow him or her, the followers certainly respond to those characteristics. Crosby examines each version of the leader in relation to the Absolutes, so readers can assess both those whom they have been assigned to follow and their own leadership skills. He also discusses the leader's role in organizational finance and quality, and in dealing with customers, suppliers, employees, and "bosses." Those people who already have leadership potential will blossom when they understand and epitomize these precepts.
How to Save the Children
By: Amy Hatkoff and Karen Kelly Klopp
ISBN: 067-1769-979
How to Save the Children is an attempt to counter the effects of poverty and neglect on this nation's children. With close to 200 specific suggestions on things you can do to help, ranging from the simplest to the more time-consuming, How to Save the Children is a clearinghouse of ideas, addresses and phone numbers for individuals who want to get involved.
Who Moved My Cheese?
By: Spencer Johnson, M.D.
ISBN: 039-9144-463
This is a brief tale of two mice and two humans who live in a maze and one day are faced with change: someone moves their cheese. Reactions vary from quick adjustment to waiting for the situation to change by itself to suit their needs. This story is about adjusting attitudes toward change in life, especially at work. Change occurs whether a person is ready or not, but the author affirms that it can be positive. His principles are to anticipate change, let go of the old, and do what you would do if you were not afraid. Listeners are still left with questions about making his or her own specific personal changes.
The Power of a Woman
Edited by: Janet Mills
ISBN: 188-0032-392
Generations of women speak their minds in these pages, revealing the strengths and qualities women possess. Includes contributions from Anne Frank, Erica Jong, Helen Keller, Golda Meir, Terry McMillan, Mother Teresa, Indira Gandhi, Amy Tan, Mae West, and many others.
Leading in a Culture of Change
By: Michael Fullan
ISBN: 078-7953-954
Good leadership is not innate-one must learn to lead by mastering five core competencies Business, nonprofit, and public sector leaders are facing new and daunting challenges-rapid-paced developments in technology, sudden shifts in the marketplace, and crisis and contention in the public arena. This book provides insights into the dynamics of change and the role of leadership in managing and coping with the change process. Leadership today requires the ability to mobilize constituents to do important but difficult work under conditions of constant change, overload, and fragmentation. This book shows leaders how they can effectively accomplish their goals-by attending to their broader moral purpose, keeping on top of the change process, cultivating relationships, sharing knowledge, and setting a vision and context for creating coherence in their organizations.
Women of Influence, Women of Vision
By: Helen S. Astin and Carole Leland
ISBN: 155-5423-574
"The ideas about leadership examined in this book are based on interviews with three generations of women who played significant organizational and intellectual roles in the development of the women's movement in and around higher education between the mid-1950s and mid-1980s. The model of leadership that emerges stands in contrast to social movement research that emphasizes positional resources and formal organizational structures."
- Finding Your Voice
- The Leadership Challenge
- Handbook of Leadership Development
- Major in Success
- The Ascent of a Leader
- Leading Beyond the Walls
- The Language of Leadership
- The Absolutes of Leadership
- How to Save the Children
- Who Moved My Cheese?
- The Power of a Woman
- Leading in a Culture of Change
- Women of Influence, Women of Vision
By: Larraine R. Matusak
ISBN: 078-7903-051
Credibility, empowerment, and collaboration are not just ideas for business and political leaders - they are concepts that ordinary citizens can grasp to bring out the leader within them and to affect positive social change at the grassroots level. Larraine R. Matusak, a noted expert on leadership development, describes leadership as a body of knowledge that can be taught and learned, and sets forth a practical set of tools and resources to provide the knowledge and skills necessary for effective leadership. Using diverse examples of citizens who have accepted the responsibility to lead, Matusak shows how individuals who are without a title or position of power can still pursue their passion and fit leadership opportunities to their specific talents.
The Leadership Challenge
By: James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
ISBN: 078-7956-783
An inspirational and practical handbook, this expanded revision of a bestselling manual originally published in 1987 offers sound advice to corporate leaders and entrepreneurs, to managers and employees and to aspiring leaders in retail, manufacturing, government, community, church and school settings. Drawing on interviews and a questionnaire survey of more than 3000 leaders, the authors identify five fundamental practices of exemplary leadership: challenge the status quo; inspire a shared vision; enable others to act; model the way forward by setting an example; tap individuals' inner drives by linking rewards and performance. Kouzes, chairman and CEO of TPG/Learning Systems, and Posner, managing partner of Santa Clara University's Executive Development Center in California, write insightful, down-to-earth, jargon-free prose. This new edition has been substantially updated to reflect the challenges of shrinking work forces, rising cynicism and expanded telecommunications. An appendix includes the author's Leadership Practices Inventory, a tool for assessing leadership behavior.
Handbook of Leadership Development
Edited by: Cynthia McCauley, Russ Moxley and Ellen Van Velsor
ISBN: 078-7965-294
The Center for Creative Leadership is the world's largest institution devoted to leadership research and education. In this handbook over a dozen talented professionals join forces to outline the Center's philosophy and strategies. They present six proven methods of leadership development and illustrate how those methods have been successfully used in the real world. They give organizations a systemic approach and a means for evaluating the impact of their initiatives. And they pragmatically address such urgent topics as leadership growth for women and people of color, cross-cultural leadership development, and the development of global leaders.
Major in Success
By: Patrick Combs
ISBN: 158-0085-326
Combs goes into the tough territory facing many young people heading into (or out of) college, offering the recent graduate's perspective and the experience of extensive lecturing on campus as he discusses planning goals, enthusiasm, and reality as a peer, not another authority figure.
The Ascent of a leader
By: Bill Thrall, Bruce McNicol and Ken McElrath
ISBN: 078-7947-660
Become the leader people are proud to follow by opening yourself to the influences that develop character: enduring relationships with friends, family, and God. Solidly based on Christian values, this practical, visionary, and hope-filled book guides readers through a step-by-step process for developing both personal character and the network of important relationships that enable character to win out, even in the face of setbacks, adversity, and temptations to take short cuts. Leadership is about character, the authors assert, and character weaves values like integrity, honesty, and selfless service into the fabric of our lives, organizations, and cultures. The Ascent of a Leader is written for ordinary people-mothers, husbands, bosses, secretaries, pastors, teachers, and students-who want to develop extraordinary character, find and follow God's plan for their lives, and lead others where they need to go. We all have innate leadership potential. To maximize it, we must do much more than develop performance-based skills, the authors assert. We must consciously choose who and what we allow to influence us, find and develop our humility, and build enduring relationships with colleagues, family, friends, and God. They offer engaging real-life examples to show how we can grow into our true potential as leaders and inspire us to "make a difference in the 21st century-in our families, our communities, our companies, our government, and even our world."
Leading Beyond the Walls
Edited by: Frances Hesslebein, Marshall Goldsmith and Iain Somerville
ISBN: 068-7064-155
In Leading Beyond the Walls, twenty-nine great thinkers examine leaders adept at establishing partnerships, alliances, and networks both within and outside their organizations. They address the challenge of leading in an age when the old rules and conventional boundaries no longer exist. Peter F. Drucker, Stephen R. Covey, Peter M. Senge, Jim Collins, Noel Tichy, Regina E. Herzlinger, C.K. Prahalad, and Sally Helgesen are among those who explore new ways of building relationships, new approaches to strategy and marketing, new models of employee relations, and other innovations. Their essays herald a new world where success comes to those willing to move beyond the walls of tradition and inertia.
The Language of Leadership
By: Roger Soder
ISBN: 078-7943-606
The Language of Leadership explores the powerful role that language plays in helping leaders, no matter what their field, support their position and create a climate of credibility and legitimacy. In this persuasive and compelling book, Roger Soder draws from a wealth of historical and literary sources and uses illustrative examples from contemporary leadership practices. The Language of Leadership examines the art of developing principled and persuasive arguments and devotes particular attention to the process of gathering evidence on which to support an argument. Throughout the book, Soder advances practical ideas for cultivating public trust, openness and inquiry, and stresses the vital need for modeling democratic values in speech and conduct. Most importantly, the book addresses the myriad moral and political dilemmas that leaders face and shows how to use language and other principled tactics for coping with dissension and conflict when crises erupt.
The Absolutes of Leadership
By: Philip Crosby
ISBN: 078-7909-424
In his eleventh book, world-renowned quality management and leadership consultant Philip Crosby takes his message to the top of the organization to define the qualities and vision of that key figure in business, government, education, and Little League alike, the leader. Leaders, he says, come in five versions, based on their work patterns, and wear an infinite number of hats. And while a leader may not recognize the personal characteristics that cause people to follow him or her, the followers certainly respond to those characteristics. Crosby examines each version of the leader in relation to the Absolutes, so readers can assess both those whom they have been assigned to follow and their own leadership skills. He also discusses the leader's role in organizational finance and quality, and in dealing with customers, suppliers, employees, and "bosses." Those people who already have leadership potential will blossom when they understand and epitomize these precepts.
How to Save the Children
By: Amy Hatkoff and Karen Kelly Klopp
ISBN: 067-1769-979
How to Save the Children is an attempt to counter the effects of poverty and neglect on this nation's children. With close to 200 specific suggestions on things you can do to help, ranging from the simplest to the more time-consuming, How to Save the Children is a clearinghouse of ideas, addresses and phone numbers for individuals who want to get involved.
Who Moved My Cheese?
By: Spencer Johnson, M.D.
ISBN: 039-9144-463
This is a brief tale of two mice and two humans who live in a maze and one day are faced with change: someone moves their cheese. Reactions vary from quick adjustment to waiting for the situation to change by itself to suit their needs. This story is about adjusting attitudes toward change in life, especially at work. Change occurs whether a person is ready or not, but the author affirms that it can be positive. His principles are to anticipate change, let go of the old, and do what you would do if you were not afraid. Listeners are still left with questions about making his or her own specific personal changes.
The Power of a Woman
Edited by: Janet Mills
ISBN: 188-0032-392
Generations of women speak their minds in these pages, revealing the strengths and qualities women possess. Includes contributions from Anne Frank, Erica Jong, Helen Keller, Golda Meir, Terry McMillan, Mother Teresa, Indira Gandhi, Amy Tan, Mae West, and many others.
Leading in a Culture of Change
By: Michael Fullan
ISBN: 078-7953-954
Good leadership is not innate-one must learn to lead by mastering five core competencies Business, nonprofit, and public sector leaders are facing new and daunting challenges-rapid-paced developments in technology, sudden shifts in the marketplace, and crisis and contention in the public arena. This book provides insights into the dynamics of change and the role of leadership in managing and coping with the change process. Leadership today requires the ability to mobilize constituents to do important but difficult work under conditions of constant change, overload, and fragmentation. This book shows leaders how they can effectively accomplish their goals-by attending to their broader moral purpose, keeping on top of the change process, cultivating relationships, sharing knowledge, and setting a vision and context for creating coherence in their organizations.
Women of Influence, Women of Vision
By: Helen S. Astin and Carole Leland
ISBN: 155-5423-574
"The ideas about leadership examined in this book are based on interviews with three generations of women who played significant organizational and intellectual roles in the development of the women's movement in and around higher education between the mid-1950s and mid-1980s. The model of leadership that emerges stands in contrast to social movement research that emphasizes positional resources and formal organizational structures."