Uneak White's Personal Brand Exploration Presentation
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1. Readings
Commentators on leadership learning
Arnold, Jennifer (2008) Creating the next generation of library leaders. New
Library World, 109(9/10), pp444-456.
Gwyer, Roisin (2008) International approaches to developing leaders. Library +
Information Update, May, pp28-30.
Jolly, Liz et al (2008) Leadership - It's a Habit of Mind. Library + Information
Update, October pp36-38.
McMenemy, David (2008) "Or you got it or you ain't": the nature of leadership in
libraries. Library Review, 57(4), pp265-268.
Rowley, Jenny (2008) The reluctant leader? - Leadership and the information
profession. Library + Information Update, July/Aug, pp52-54.
Required reading for the FLP
Kouzes, J. & Posner, B. (2002) The leadership challenge. San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass. [Enlist others in a common vision by appealing to shared
aspiration.]
Quinn, R.E. (1996) Deep change. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. [Walk naked
into the land of uncertainty!]
Torbert, B. (2004) Action inquiry: the secret of timely and transforming
leadership. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler. [Intention/Strategy/Action/Outcome]
Other useful books
Blanchard, K.H. (1985) Leadership and the one minute manager.
Fontana/Collins.
Heifetz, R. & LInsky, M. (2002) Leadership on the line: staying alive through the
dangers of leading. Harvard Business School Press.
Scholes, K et al (2009) Exploring corporate strategy. Financial Times/Prentice-
Hall. [Cultural Web model explained and used.]
Wheatley, M.J. (1999) Leadership and the new science: discovering order in a
chaotic world. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler. [Questions some of the more
fundamental (and comfortable) concepts and ideas about how organisations
work.]