Center for Leadership
and Civic Engagement

 

Recommended Readings for Leaders

Leadership Development

  • Leadership Development in Balance  - Bruce J. Avolio
  • The High Impact Leader – Bruce J. Avolio
  • Full Leadership Development – Bruce J. Avolio
  • Developing Potential Across a Full Range of Leadership – Bruce J. Avolio
  • Learning to Lead – Jay Alden Conger
  • Building Leaders – Jay Alden Conger
  • Learning to Lead – Warren Bennis
  • Linkage Inc.’s Best Practices in Leadership Development Handbook – Louis Carter
  • The Future of Leadership Development – Susan E. Murphy
  • Leadership by Design – Albert A. Vicere
  • The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Leadership Development – Cynthia McCauley
  • Leader Development for Transforming Organizations – David V. Day
  • Cross-Cultural Approaches to Leadership – C. Brooklyn Derr

 

Leadership Classics

  • Bass & Stogdill’s Handbook of Leadership – Bernard M. Bass
  • Transformational Leadership – Bernard M. Bass
  • The Charismatic Leader – Jay A. Conger
  • Leadership on the Line – Martin Linsky
  • Leadership Without Easy Answers – Ronald Heifetz
  • Harvard Business Review on Leadership – Henry Mintzberg
  • On Becoming a Leader – Warren Bennis
  • Leaders – Warren Bennis
  • Leadership – James M. Burns
  • Transforming Leadership – James M. Burns
  • Primal Leadership – Daniel Goleman
  • The Deep Blue Sea – Wilfred Drath
  • Clearings in the Forest – Nathan Harter
  • Bad Leadership – Barbara Kellerman
  • The Allure of Toxic Leaders – Jean Lipman-Blumen
  • The Courageous Follower – Ira Chaleff
  • On Leadership – John W. Gardner
  • Servant Leadership – Robert Greenleaf
  • Leadership for the Twenty-First Century – Joseph C. Rost
  • Leadership and the New Science – Margaret Wheatley

 

Individual Development – Developing Your Leadership Capacity

  • Leadership – Delorese Ambrose
  • Learning to Lead – Warren Bennis
  • The Leader Within – Drea Zigarmi
  • The Leadership Challenge – Kouzes & Posner
  • Encouraging the Heart – Kouzes & Posner
  • Credibility – Kouzes & Posner
  • Exploring Leadership – Susan Komives
  • Emotionally Intelligent Leadership – Scott J. Allen
  • Strengths Based Leadership – Tom Rath

 

Leadership for Higher Education – Leadership Studies

  • Teaching Leadership – Rajnandini Pillai
  • Leadership – Peter Northouse
  • Leadership in Organizations – Gary Yukl
  • Leadership Can Be Taught – Sharon Daloz Parks
  • Leadership – Richard Hughes
  • Heroic Leadership – Chris Lowney
  • Contemporary Issues in Leadership – Rosenbach & Taylor

 

Leadership for Business & Industry

  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick Lencioni
  • Growing Your Company’s Leaders – Robert  Fulmer
  • Maximizing the Value of 360-Degree Feedback – Walter Tornow
  • The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Coaching – Sharon Ting
  • Leading in Black and White – Ancella Livers
  • Leadership and the One Minute Manager – Ken Blanchard
  • Built to Last – Jim Collins
  • Lessons of Experience – Morgan W. MCCall
  • Leading Change – John P. Kotter
  • The Heart of Change – John P. Kotter
  • The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership – John Maxwell
  • Thinking for a Change – John Maxwell
  • Good to Great – Jim Collins
  • Level 5 Leadership – Harvard Business Review
  • Resonant Leadership – Richard E. Boyatzis
  • True North – Bill George