Self-directed learning
A resource library is available to support you in your leadership or management role. You are welcome to borrow a number of recommended texts. Please email lmd-help@bristol.ac.uk if you are interested in any of the titles outlined below:
- Adair, J, How to Grow Leaders
- Adair, J, How To Manage Your Time
- Allcock, D, Working with a Secretary
- Argyris, C, Knowledge for Action: A guide to overcoming barriers to organisational change
- Meredith Belbin, R, Management Teams
- Meredith Belbin, R, Team Roles at Work
- Birnbaum, R, Management Fads in Higher Education: Where They Come From, What They Do, Why They Fail
- Blackwell, R and Blackmore, P, Towards Strategic Staff Development in Higher Education
- Blanchard, K, Leadership and The One Minute Manager
- Blanchard, K and Johnson, S, The One Minute Manager
- Bolton, A, Managing the Academic Unit
- Buzan, T, The Speed Reading Book
- Buzan, T, Use Your Memory
- Clark, B R, Sustaining Change in Universities
- Conway, J B, On Being a Department Head: a Personal View
- Cornford, F M, Microcosmographia Academica
- Covey, S R, Principle-Centred Leadership
- Covey, S R, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- Crainer, S, Key Management Ideas
- Diamond, R M, Field Guide to Academic Leadership
- Egan, G, Working The Shadow Side
- Fenman, Overcoming Resistance to Change
- Fenman, Practical Leadership Skills
- Flaherty, J, Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others
- Fritz, R, Corporate Tides: The Inescapable Laws of Organisational Structure
- Gillen, T, Assertiveness
- Goleman, D, Emotional Intelligence
- Goleman, D, The New Leaders
- Goleman, D, Working with Emotional Intelligence
- Hall, A, Managing People
- Handy, C, Gods of Management: The Changing Work of Organisations
- Handy, C, The Empty Raincoat: New Thinking For A New World
- Jay, R, and Templar, R, Fast Thinking Manager?s Manual
- Keirsey, D, Leadership, Temperament and Talent
- Kennedy, G, Essential Negotiation
- Knight, P and Trowler, P, Departmental Leadership in Higher Education
- Kotter, J P and Cohen, D S, The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
- Lukes, M with Kellaway, L, Who Moved My BlackberryÔ?
- McCaffrey, P, The Higher Education Manager?s Handbook
- McGee, P, Shut Up, Move On: The Straight-Talking Guide to Creating and Enjoying a Brilliant Life
- Machiavelli, The Prince
- Maitland, I, Motivating People
- Middleton, J, Organizations Express
- Middleton, J, The Ultimate Strategy Library: The 50 Most Influential Strategic Ideas of All Time
- Morgan, G, Images of Organisation
- Mumford, A, Management Development: Strategies for Action
- Northouse, P G, Leadership: Theory and Practice
- O'Connor, J and Seymour, J, Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People
- Parsloe, E, The Manager as Coach and Mentor
- Partington, P and Stainton, C, Managing Staff Development
- Pascale, R T, Surfing the Edge of Chaos
- Peter, L J and Hull, R, The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong
- Peters, T and Waterman Jr, R H, In Search of Excellence
- Pfeffer, J and Sutton, R I, Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense
- Prichard, C, Making Managers in Universities and Colleges
- Ramsden, P, Learning to Lead in Higher Education
- Ridderstrale, J and Nordstrom, K, Funky Business
- Senge, P M, The Dance of Change: The Challenges of Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organisations
- Senge, P M, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization
- Senge, P M, The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building the Learning Organization
- Shattock, M, Managing Successful Universities
- Storey, J, Leadership in Organizations: Current Issues and Key Trends
- Taylor, D, The Naked Leader
- Taylor, P G, Making Sense of Academic Life: Academics, Universities and Change
- ten Have, S, ten Have, W, Stevens, F and van der Elst, M with Pol-Coyne, F, Key Management Models
- Thomas, H, Managing Financial Resources
- Warner, D and Palfreyman, D, Higher Education Management: The Key Elements
- Watkins, M, The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at all Levels
- Whitney, D and Trosten-Bloom, A, The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change