Teachers College, Columbia University
Leadership Working Group
Readings and Resources
READINGS
Gardner, John (1990) On Leadership. The Free Press
POTENTIAL ADDITIONAL READINGS
Astin, Helen and Leland, Carole, Women of Influence, Women of Vision: A Cross-Generational Study of
Leaders and Social Change, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991.
Avolio, B.J. (1999) Full leadership development: Building the vital forces on organizations.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Avolio, B.J., & Bass, B.M. (1987). Transformational leadership, charisma, and beyond. In J.
Hunt, B. Baliga, H.P., Dachler, & C. Shriesheim, Emerging leadership vistas (pp.29-50).
Lexington Books.
Barling, J., Weber, T., & Keloway, E.K. (1996). Effects of transformational leadership training
on attitudinal and financial outcomes: A field experiment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 81,
827-832.
Bass, B.M. (1990). Bass and Stogdill’s handbook of leadership. New York: The Free Press.
Bass, B.M. (1985a). Leadership: Good, better, best. Organizational Dynamics, 13(3), 26-40.
Bass, B.M. (1985b). Leadership and performance beyond expectations. New York: The Free
Press.
Bennis, W.G. (1989). On becoming a leader. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Bennis, W.G. & Nanus, B. (1985). Leaders: The strategies for taking charge. New York:
Harper and Row.
Burke, W.W. (1994). Organization development: A process of learning and changing, 2nd Ed.,
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Burke, W.W. (1986). Leadership as empowering others. In S. Srivastra and Associates (Eds.),
Executive Power: How Executives influence people and organizations (pp. 51-77). San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass.
Burns, J.M. (1978). Leadership. New York: Harper & Row.
Cleveland, Harlan (1985). The Knowledge Executive: Leadership in an Information Society.
Truman Tally Books.
Cohen, Michael D., and James March (1974). Leadership and Ambiguity. McGraw-Hill Book
Company.
Fukuyama, Frances. Trust
Geyer, A.L. & Steyrer, J.M. (1998). Transformational leadership and objective performance in banks.
Applied Psychology: an International Review, 47, 397-420.
Goleman, D.P. (1998). What makes a leader? Harvard Business Review, 76(6) 93-102.
Heifetz, Ronald A. (1994). Leadership Without Easy Answers. Belknap Press.
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss (1983). The Change Masters: Innovation for Productivity in the
American Corporation. Simon and Schuster.
Kotter, John (1995). Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail. Harvard Business
Review.
Lasch, Christopher. The True and Only Heaven
Marable, Manning. Race, Reform, and Rebellion
Myrer, Anton. (2000). Once an Eagle: A Novel. (The U.S. Army’s current favorite reading on
leadership)
O’Toole, J. (2000). Leadership A to Z: An interview with James O’Toole about appropriately ambitious
leaders. Training and Development, 54(3), 58-61.
O’Toole, James (1995) Leading Change. Ballantine.
Osborne, David and Ted Gaebler (1992). Reinventing Government. Addison-Wesley.
Sashkin, M., & Burke, W.W. (1990). Understanding and assessing organizational leadership.
In Measures of Leadership (pp.297-325), K.E. Clark & M.B. Clark. (Eds.) West
Orange, NJ: Leadership Library of America.
Senge, Peter et alia (1999). The Dance of Change. Doubleday.
Stodgill, R.M. (1974). Handbook of leadership. New York: The Free Press.
Yukl, G.A. (1989). Managerial leadership: A review of theory and research. Yearly Review
of Management, 15, 251-289.
Yukl, G.A. (1994). Leadership in Organizations, 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Zaleznik, A. (1977). Managers and leaders: Are they different? Harvard Business Review, 55(5), 67-78.
POTENTIAL ADDITIONAL READINGS: SCHOOL LEADERSHIP
(This is a beginning list—can you help us with suggestions?)
Callahan, Raymond. Education and the Cult of Efficiency.
Fullan, Michael G. and Suzanne Steigelbauer. (1991). The New Meaning of Educational
Change. Teachers College Press.
Fullan, Michael and Andy Hargreaves (1991, 1996). What’s Worth Fighting For In Your School. TC
Press.
Fullan, Michael (1997). What’s Worth Fighting For In The Principalship. TC Press
Heck, R.H., T.J., Marcoulides, G.A. (1990). Instructional Leadership and School achievement: Validation
of a casual model. Education Administration Quarterly, 26, 94-125.
O’Hair, Mary John, and Odell, Sandra J. Educating Teachers for Leadership and Change: Teacher
Education Yearbook III. Corwin Press.
Orr, Margaret Terry. (2000). “Developing Quality Leaders—Connecting the Educational
Leadership Crisis to Preparation Programs.” Teachers College, Columbia University.
Popkewitz, Thomas, et al. The Myth of Educational Reform.
Sergiovanni, Thomas (1995). The Principalship. Allyn and Bacon.
Tyack, David and Larry Cuban (1995). Tinkering Toward Utopia. Harvard University Press.
OUTSIDE VISITORS, PRACTITIONERS:
Ramon Cortines
Rudy Crew
Nancy Grasmick
Jerry House
Dennis Littky
Rick Mills
Mike Moses
Roy Romer
Tom Payzant
Dick Wallace
OUTSIDE VISITORS, OTHER BACKGROUNDS:
Don Adams, Chair of the Board, Houston Independent School District
Randy Best, Voyager Learning
Ellen Futter, American Museum of Natural History
Col. David Porter, U.S. Air Force Academy
Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich, Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Black Leadership Forum
Inc.