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What We're Reading


We’re often asked by students, scholars and others in the community, “what are you reading?”  While we bring in many more articles and texts with each new class, below is a list of commonly assigned readings for this year.


Not Enough Generals Were Killed. The Leader of the Future
Drucker, P. F. (1995).

F. Hesselbein, Goldsmith, Marshall, and Beckhard, Richard. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass : xi-xv.


Management of the Absurd: Paradoxes in Leadership
Farson, R. (1997).

New York, Free Press.


Business Leadership: A Jossey-Bass Reader
Gallos, J. V., Ed. (2008).

The Jossey-Bass Business and Management Reader Series. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass.


The Harvard Business Review

Letter from Birmingham City Jail. The International Library of Leadership:
New Perspectives on Leadership

King Jr., M. L. (2004).

J. T. Wren, Hicks, Douglas A., and Price, Terry L. Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. 3: 329-342.


"McKinsey Global Survey Results: How Companies Make Good Decisions"
McKinsey & Company. (2008).

The McKinsey Quarterly(December, 2008): 7.


Leadership: Theory and Practice
Northouse, P. G. (2007).

Thousand Oaks, California, Sage Publications.


Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
Palmer, P. J. (2000).

San Francisco, Jossey-Bass.


The Moral Instinct
Pinker, S. (2008).

The New York Times. New York:16.


Deeper Learning in Leadership: Helping College Students Find the Potential Within
Roberts, D. C. (2007).

San Francisco, Jossey-Bass.


Cases in Leadership
Rowe, W. G., Ed. (2007).

Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage Publications, Inc.


Crucibles of Leadership: How to Learn From Experience To Become a Great Leader
Thomas, R. J. (2008).

Boston, Harvard Business School Publishing.


The Paradox & Promise of Community. The Community of the Future
Wheatley, M. J. M. K.-R. (1998).

F. Hesselbein, and Goldsmith, Marshall, and Beckhard, Richard, and Schubert, Richard F. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, Inc. : 9-18.


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