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Leadership Resources

Blanchard, Kenneth. The Heart of a Leader: Insights on the Art of Influence. David C. Cook 1998

Blanchard, Kenneth and Spencer Johnson. The One Minute Manager. William Morrow & Company. New York, New York. 1982

Clinton, Bill, My Life. Alfred A. Knopf. New York, New York. 2004

Brown, Mary B. Condi: The Life of a Steel Magnolia. Thomas Nelson, Inc .Nashville, TN. 2007

Burchard, Peter Duncan. Carver-A Great Soul. Fairfax, CA: Serpent Wise, 1998.

Campbell, David C. If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going, You’ll Probably End Up Somewhere Else. Allen Texas: Argus Communications, 1974.

Campbell, David C. Take the Road to Creativity and Get Off Your Dead End. Allen, Texas: Argus Communications, 1977.

Campbell, David C. If I'm in Charge Here, Why is Everybody Laughing? Allen, Texas: Argus Communications, 1980.

Clemens, John K. and Mayer, Douglas F. The Classic Touch: Lessons in Leadership From Homer to Hemingway. Homewood, IL: Dow Jones-Irwin, 1987.

Covey, Stephen. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.

Dickens, Floyd Jr. and Jacqueline B. Dickens. The Black Manager: Making it in the Corporate World. Revised Edition. New York: American Management Association, 1991.

Felix, Antonia. Condi: The Condeleezza Rice Story. Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2002

Grace, Bill. Ethical Leadership: In Pursuit of the Common Good. Seattle WA: Center for Ethical Leadership, October 1999.

Kouzes, James M. and Barry Z. Posner. The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1995.

Leslau, Charlotte and Wolf, Compilers. African Proverbs. New York: Peter Pauler Press, Inc., 1985.

Senge, Peter. Leading Learning Organizations. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Center for Organizational Learning., 1995

Smith, Hyrum W.. The Modern Gladiator. Salt Lake City Utah: Franklin Covey Co., 2001.

Togood, Granville N. The Creative Executive. Holbrook, MA: Adams Media Corp., 2000.

Yusuf, Ali El,. How to Feel Good About Yourself – A Success Manual. Chicago: Natural Resources Unlimited, 1989.

Patterson, Kerry, Grenny, Joseph, McMillian, Ron and Switzer, Al. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When The Stakes are High. New York, New York: McGraw Hill, 2002.

Williams, Pat. The Magic of Teamwork: Proven Principles for Building a Winning Team. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1997.

O’Neill, Tip. All Politics Is Local and Other Rules of the Game. Holbrook, MA: Bob Adams, Inc., 1994.

Barker, Joel Arthur. Discovering the Future – The Business of Paradigms. St. Paul, MN: ILI Press, 1988.

Collins, Jim. Good To Great. New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2001.

Covey, Stephen R. Principle-Centered Leadership and Living The Seven Habits.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.

Guillory, Bill and Linda Galindo. Empowerment for High-Performing Organizations. Salt Lake City, Utah: Innovations International, Inc., 1994.

Fisher, Roger and William Ury. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. New York, Penguin Books, 1983.

Katzenback, John R. and Smith, Douglas K.. The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High Performance Organization. New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publisher, 2003.

Kotter, John. Leading Change. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1996.

Kotter, John P.. John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do. . Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1999.

Johnson, Darren. The Art of Letting Go of Stuff and Moving Forward with Life. Audio Cassettes and Personal Guidebook. Nashville: InsideOut Learning, 1998.

Johnson, Spencer, M.D. Who Moved My Cheese? New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1998.

Solomon, Muriel. Working with Difficult People. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1990.

Tichy, Noel M.. The Leadership Engine. New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publisher, 2002.

Acker, David G., Editor. Leadership for Higher Education in Agriculture. Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference of the Global Consortium of Higher Education and Research for Agriculture. Amsterdam: The Netherlands, July 22-24, 1999.

Hamilton, John Maxwell. Entangling Alliances: How the Third World Shapes Our Lives. Washington, DC: Seven Locks Press, 1990.

Matusak, Larraine. Finding Your Voice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Inc., 1997.

Pierce, Neal and Curtis Johnson. Boundary Crossers: Community Leadership for a Global Age. University of Maryland: The James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, 1997.

Powell, Colin. My American Journey. New York: Random House, 1995.

Boyte, Harry C. Community Is Possible: Repairing America’s Roots. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1984.

Christy, Ralph D. and Lionel Williamson, Editors. A Century of Service: Land-Grant Colleges and Universities, 1890-1990. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1992.

Edelman, Marian Wright. The Measure of Our Success – A Letter to My Children and Yours. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1997.

Harvey, William B., Editor. Grass Roots and Glass Ceilings – African-American Administrators in Predominantly White Colleges and Universities. New York: State University of New York Press, 1999.

Kremer, Gary R., Editor. George Washington Carver In His Own Words. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1987.

Weatherford, Jack. Indian Givers – How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World. New York: Ballantine Books, 1988.