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Leadership Bibliography

This bibliography was compiled by ICCD's Executive Director, Barbara Viniar.  It is a list of the leadership books she keeps at hand, and is not meant to be exhaustive or scholarly.  If you have suggestions for additions, please email her at barbara.viniar@cornell.edu.


Burns, James MacGregor. Leadership. New York, New York:
       Harper & Row, 1978.

Campbell, Dale & Assoc. The Leadership Gap. Washington,
       D.C.: Community College Press, 2002.

Collins, Jim. Good to Great. New York, New York: Harper
       Collins, 2001.

Collins, Jim. Good to Great and the Social Sectors. Boulder, 
       Colorado: Jim Collins, 2005.

DePree, Max. Leadership is an Art. New York, New York:
       Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1989.

Gardner, John. Living, Leading, and the American Dream.
       San Francisco, California: Jossey-Bass, 2003.

Greenleaf, Robert. Servant Leadership. A Journey into the
       Nature of Legitimate Power 
and Greatness. Mahwah,
       New Jersey: Paulist Press, 1977

Heifetz, Ronald A. Leadership Without Easy Answers.
       Cambridge, Massachusetts:  Harvard University
       Press, 1994

Heifetz, Ronald A., Marty Linsky. Leadership on the Line.
       Boston, Massachusetts:  Harvard Business
       School Press, 2002.

Hesselbein, Frances, Paul M. Cohen. Leader to Leader:
       Enduring Insights on Leadership 
from the Drucker
       Foundation’s Award-Winning Journal
. New York, 
       New York:  Jossey-Bass, 1999.

Kellerman, Barbara. Bad Leadership. What It Is, How it
       Happens, Why it Matters.  
Boston, Massachusetts:
       Harvard Business School Press, 2004.
Kellerman, Barbara, Deborah L. Rhode, Feds.
       Women &Leadership. The State of Play and Strategies
       for Change.
San Francisco, California: John Wiley & Sons
       2007.

McCauley, Cynthia, Ellen Van Velsor. Handbook of Leadership
       
Development.  San Francisco, California:
       Jossey-Bass, 2004.

Myran, Gunder, et al. Leadership Strategies for Community
       College Executives
.  Washington, D.C.: Community College
       Press, 2003.
Nelson, Stephen J. Leaders in the Labyrinth: College Presidents
        and the Battleground of Creeds and Convictions. Westport,
        Connecticut:
Praeger Publishers, 2007.

Palmer, Parker. Let Your Life Speak. Listening for the Voice of
       Vocation.
San Francisco, California: Jossey-Bass, 2000.

Sidle, Charles C. The Leadership Wheel: Five Steps for Achieving
        Individual and
Organizational Greatness. Palgrave Mcmillan
        Press, 2005.

Wheatley, Margaret. Turning to One Another. Simple
        Conversations to Restore Hope to 
the Future. San
        Francisco
, California:  Berrett-Koeler, 2002.

Whitney, John, Tina Packer. Power Plays: Shakespeare’s
        Lessons in Leadership and Management
.
New York,
        New York: Simon & Shuster, 2000.

Useem, Michael.  The Leadership Moment:  Nine True Stories of
        Triumph and Disaster 
and Their Lessons for Us All.
        New York, New York:  Three Rivers Press, 1998.

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