Research Report: During the past several decades, there have been a large number of books and
articles written about leaders and leadership that have appeared in the popular press and on the shelves
at your local bookstore. I believe that lessons can be learned from the anecdotal comments coming
from these popular writers, the men and women leaders of today’s organizations and those who have
chosen to observe and write about them. You are expected to have read one of the popular books (see
the following bibliography) or several related leadership articles and to have prepared a 5- to 7-page
summary (APA format). If you choose a book, you do not need to read it the same way you read a
textbook. A book can be read quickly and lightly. You can extract the essence from works of this
nature without reading each word and line with “pain-staking detail.” You may find the essence of the
author’s work in the first chapter, sometimes it appears in the last chapter, sometimes it is spread
throughout the book. I am asking that you provide a “summary” of the author’s work—what is the
author’s major theme? What are the key ideas being presented? Your work is to be a summary and not
a personal critique of the book or series of articles. Reference page should be at the end of the paper in
APA format matching the in-text citations.
Bibliography
Adair, Effective Leadership
Autry, Love and Profit: The Art of Caring Leadership
Badaracco and Ellsworth, Leadership and the Quest
Bass and Avolio, Improving Organizational Effectiveness through Transformational Ownership
Bass, Leadership and Performance Beyond Expectations
Bellingham and Cohen, Leadership: Myths and Realities
Bennis and Nanus, Leaders
Bennis, Leaders on Leadership
Bennis, On Becoming a Leader
Bennis, Why Leaders Can’t Lead
Block, Stewardship
Block, The Empowered Manager
Bracey, Managing from the Heart
Bryman, Charisma and Leadership in Organizations
Burns, Leadership
Byham and Cox, Zapp: The Lightning of Empowerment
Chaleff, The Courageous Follower
Cheaney and Cotter, Real People, Real Work: Parables on Leadership in the 90s
Clark and Clark, Measures of Leadership
Clark, Clark, and Campbell, Impact of Leadership
Cohen and Bradford, Influence without Authority
Cohen, The Art of the Leader
Collins, Women Leading
Conger, Charismatic Leadership
Conger, Learning to Lead
Covey, Principle-Centered Leadership
Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People – Please do not prepare a report on this book. It
is often required reading for other classes
Cribbin, Leadership: Strategies of Organizational Effectiveness
Crosby, Mung, The Art of Becoming an Executive
Daft and Lengel, Fusion Leadership
Daft and Lengel, The Fourth Cell: Leadership Excellence
DePree, Leading Without Power
DePree, Leadership Is an Art
DePree, Leadership Jazz
Fiedler and Garcia, New Approaches to Effective Leadership for Integrity
Gardner, On Leadership
Gilmore, Making a Leadership Change
Gitlow, Being the Boss: The Importance of Leadership and Power
Glasser, The Control Theory Manager
Greenleaf, Servant Leadership
Haas, The Leader Within
Heider, The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching in Action
Herman, The Tao of Work: On Leading and Following
Joiner, Leadership for Change
Kelley, The Power of Followership
Kets de Vries, Prisoners of Leadership
Koestenbaum, Leadership: The Inner Side of Greatness
Kotter, Leading Change
Kotter, The Leadership Factor
Kouzes and Posner, Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It; Why People Demand It
Kouzes and Posner, The Leadership Challenge
Leavitt, Corporate Pathfinders
Lee, The Power Principle
Levinson and Rosenthal, CEO: Corporate Leadership
Locke, The Essence of Leadership
Loden, Feminine Ownership
Luecke, Scuttle Your Ships Before Advancing: Lessons from History on Leadership and Change for
Today’s Managers
Maccoby, The Leader
Manz, The Leadership Wisdom of Jesus
Manz and Sims, Super Leadership
Marcinko, Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior
Maxwell, "The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership".
McLean and Weitzel, Magic, Myth, or Method?
Morrison, The New Leaders
Nanus, The Leader’s Edge
Nanus, Visionary Leadership
Pfeffer, Managing with Power
Phillips, Lincoln on Leadership
Portnoy, Leadership: What Every Leader Should Know about People
Rehfield, The Alchemy of a Leader
Robert, The Essence of Leadership: Strategy, Innovation, and Decisiveness
Roberts, Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun
Sayles, The Working Leader
Schein, Organizational Culture and Leadership
Schwartzkopf, It Doesn’t Take a Hero
Shelton, Beyond Counterfeit Leadership
Sims and Lorenzi, The New Leadership Paradigm
Snyder and Graves, Vision, Values, and Courage: Leadership for Quality Management
Spears, Reflections on Leadership
Tichy and Cohen, The Leadership Engine
Tichy and Devanna, The Transformational Leader
Vaill, Management as a Performing Art
Vaill, Spirited Leading and Learning
Vroom and Jago, The New Leadership
Wheatley, Leadership and the New Science
Zaleznik, The Managerial Mystique
