Recommended Reading

This list, provided by Dylan Houle and Jon Schlesinger as a companion to “How We Lead: Theories of Career Services Leadership,” is based on suggestions provided by career services leaders who took part in Houle’s podcast for the books, blogs, and resources that were meaningful to them in their leadership development.

Leadership and Management

• Boundaries for Leaders — Henry Cloud
• Dare to Lead — Brené Brown
• Emergent Strategy — Adrienne Maree Brown
• From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership — Harry Kraemer
• Holding Change — Adrienne Maree Brown
• Lead from the Outside — Stacey Abrams
• Leading on Empty — Wayne Cordeiro
• The One Minute Manager — Ken Blanchard & Spencer Johnson
• The Right Kind of Wrong — Amy Edmondson
• The Thin Book of Trust — Charles Feltman
• The Way of Council — Jack Zimmerman & Virginia Coyle

Innovation, Creativity, and Organizational Culture

• Creativity, Inc. — Ed Catmull (with Amy Wallace)
• Start With Why — Simon Sinek
• The Audacity of Hope — Barack Obama
• The End of Education — Neil Postman
  

Personal Growth, Identity, and Resilience

• Born a Crime — Trevor Noah
• Mountains Beyond Mountains — Tracy Kidder
• No One’s Coming to Save Us — Stephanie Land
• Not for Sale — Cathy Keats
• Pleasure Activism — Adrienne Maree Brown
• Quiet — Susan Cain
  

Podcasts and Talks

• Career Everywhere — uConnect (Podcast)
• Multipotentialite: How to Be Everything — Emilie Wapnick (TEDx Talk)
• The Pivot — Scott Galloway & Kara Swisher (Podcast)
• WorkLife — Adam Grant (Podcast)