Leadership & Community Building

Academic Strategy: The Management Revolution in American Higher Education - George Keller

This book examines the condition of these programs by exploring their history, missions, curricula, student demography, and organizational settings within schools of education.

Administration as a Profession - Jonathan D. Fife, Lester F. Goodchild

This book details the nature and dimensions of education's dramatic reversal and the reasons behind it. The new role of strategic planning and its effect on professors, trustees, and college presidents is examined. Based on the authors' visits to campuses across the country, as well as interviews with leading educators and planners, the book delineates the special requirements of academic management and is applicable to all organizations faced with change. Specific topics covered include the leadership crisis, curricular and technology changes, and the outlook for the future. 

Essentials of Organizational Behavior - Stephen P. Robbins

This book teaches readers how to communicate and interact within organizations through real-world scenarios. Readers can use the book's concepts to apply what they've learned to their own education, future career plans, and other organizational endeavors.

Ethical Intelligence - Bruce Weinstein, Ph.D.

This book declares that your ethical intelligence determines how successful you are in your job, how strong your relationships with friends and family are, and even how you feel about yourself. This is the first book that shows how to increase your ethics IQ in every area of your life. Through numerous real-life examples, Dr. Weinstein applies the principles of ethical intelligence to some of the toughest problems we face and reveals the essential elements of a life well-lived.

Lead with No Fear - Steve Gutzleer and Mike Acker

Do you desire to grow, improve, and gain new levels of influence as a leader? Are you navigating through the uncertain waters of leadership? In this conversational and action-oriented book, the authors present seven shifts to direct your leadership toward your desired destination: impact, influence, and inspiration.

Nudge: The Final Edition - Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

This title illustrates how to use 'choice architecture' to help us make better decisions for ourselves, our families, and our society. 

Primal Leadership - Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee

This title illustrates the power and necessity of leadership that is self-aware, empathetic, motivating, and collaborative in a world that is ever more economically volatile and technologically complex. 

Set Boundaries, Find Peace - Nedra Glover Tawwab

This title presents simple yet powerful ways to establish healthy boundaries in all aspects of life.

The Leadership Challenge - James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

This title describes the practices that individuals must learn and the relationships they must cultivate to engage constituents and create great workplaces.

Think Again - Adam Grant

This title examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your opinions and open other people's minds, which can position you for excellence at work and wisdom in life.

Motivation & Time Management

Big Little Breakthrough - Josh Linkner

By cultivating daily micro-innovations, individuals and organizations are better equipped to tackle tough challenges and seize transformational opportunities.

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking when the Stake are High - Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

When the stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong, you have three choices: Avoid a crucial conversation and suffer the consequences, handle the conversation poorly and suffer the consequences, or apply the lessons and strategies of Crucial Conversations and improve relationships and results.

Drive - Daniel H. Pink

This title examines three elements of true motivation - autonomy, mastery, and purpose - and offers thoughtful and surprising techniques for putting these into action. 

Finish What You Start - Peter Hollins

This book offers practical tactics to grow your willpower, stop procrastination, focus like a laser and achieve whatever you set your mind to.

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals - Oliver Burkeman

This title introduces readers to tools for constructing meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing that many of the unhelpful ways we've come to think about time aren't inescapable, unchangeable truths but choices we've made as individuals and society - and that we can do things differently.

Making Work Work: The Positivity Solution for Any Work Environment - Shola Richards

This title focuses on transforming the workplace into a space of respect, courtesy, and endless energy. Making Work Work focuses on inspiring current and future leaders to start a movement that will banish on-the-job bullying, put meaning back into work, and enhance coworkers’ happiness and engagement. Richards, whose popular blog has a worldwide following, explains why inaction doesn't make sense, why we must move forward with positivity, and why the “abc” employees (a**hats, bullies, and complainers) are so destructive. This motivational guide will stay in readers’ hearts and minds long after they finish reading it. 

The OZ Principle - Roger Connors, Tom Smith, and Craig Hickman

At the core of the authors' message is the idea that when people take personal ownership of their organization's goals and accept responsibility for their own performance, they become more invested and work at a higher level to ensure their own success and the success of everyone else.

Communication & Public Speaking

Report Writing for Business - Raymond V. Lesikar

This popular guide presents report writing as consisting of universal steps that help readers break down each project into manageable components - defining the problem, collecting the facts, constructing the report, and writing it all up.

Speak with No Fear - Mike Acker

This guide provides seven proven strategies to help you find your inner presenter.

Talking to Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell

Talking to Strangers is a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. In it, Malcolm Gladwell revisits depictions of major world figures, putting our understanding of these people in doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know, and the resulting conflict and misunderstanding have a profound effect on our lives and our world. Now, with Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell brings us a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking - Chris Anderson

This title explains how the miracle of powerful public speaking is achieved and equips you to give it your best shot. 

Student Support

American Academic Cultures - Paul H. Mattingly

By looking at the history of higher education in this new way, Mattingly opens our eyes to our current moment and the part its culture plays in generating both its politics and promise. 

Super Learning - Peter Hollins

This title shows you the most effective methods, the pitfalls we must avoid, and the habits we must cultivate to learn more, faster.

Teach Students How to Learn - Saundra Yancy McGuire

This title encapsulates the model and ideas McGuire has developed on metacognition over the past 15 years.

The Curricular Approach to Student Affairs - Kathleen G. Kerr, et al.

This book aligns the mission, goals, outcomes, and practices of a student affairs division, unit, or other entity that works to educate students beyond the classroom with those of the institution and organizes international and developmentally sequenced strategies to facilitate student learning. 

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