LibGuides: Leadership Development: Leadership Basics

Importance of Leadership

Leadership in the field of healthcare is vital to building a high-quality patient experience, and several studies suggest it is best to begin preparing future medical professionals for the management, communication, and critical thinking leadership roles they will be expected to assume in the healthcare system as early as possible. Gathered on this guide are resources all available through the ATSM Library ranging from popular, basic leadership information to more detailed resources for the fields of education and medicine.

Popular Leadership eBooks

Contemporary Leadership Challenges by Jacinta Austin (Editor)
Contemporary leadership challenges examine various aspects of leadership challenges including an extensive historical overview of leadership practices and related concepts.
Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition by Kerry Patterson; Joseph Grenny; Ron McMillan; Al Switzler
“[Crucial Conversations] draws our attention to those defining moments that literally shape our lives, our relationships, and our world…. This book deserves to take its place as one of the key thought leadership contributions of our time.” ―From the Foreword.
Encouraging the Heart by James M. Kouzes; Barry Z. Posner
Advising mutual respect and recognition of accomplishments, Encouraging the Heart shows us how true leaders encourage and motivate those they work with by helping them find their voice and making them feel like heroes.
Good leaders ask great questions : your foundation for successful leadership by John C. Maxwell
John C. Maxwell delves into the process of becoming a successful leader by examining how questions can be used to advantage. What are the questions leaders should ask themselves? What questions should they ask members of their team?
How to Be an Inclusive Leader by Jennifer Brown
We know why diversity is important, but how do we drive real change at work? Diversity and inclusion expert Jennifer Brown provides a step-by-step guide for the personal and emotional journey we must undertake to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
Leadership by Brian Tracy
Success expert Brian Tracy has spent years studying the world's greatest leaders. Packed with practical, proven methods, Leadership, a indispensable little guide will help you unlock your leadership potential.
Your Leadership Story by Tim Tobin
Using story as both a metaphor and a process for self-development, Tobin offers activities and questions that help you better understand your own leadership and how others perceive it.

All Leadership eBooks in the Library

Popular Leadership eJournals

International Journal of Leadership Studies

Covers topics related to leadership from different perspectives unique to different cultures, settings, and religions around the world.

Leadership

The main emphasis in the journal is on interdisciplinary, diverse and critical analyses of leadership processes in contemporary organizations. Leadership encourages new ways of researching and conceptualizing leadership.

Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies

Deals with all aspects of leadership & organizations. A forum for the expression of theory, research & practice, with special emphasis given to emerging, ideas, issues, trends & innovations.

Leadership Excellence

Centrally concerned with issues & ideas relating to personal development, managerial effectiveness & personal productivity.

Journal of Leadership Studies

Publishes leadership research and theoretical contributions that bridge the gap between scholarship and practice and that exemplify critical inquiry into contemporary organizational issues and paradigms.

The Leadership Quarterly

Stresses theory and empirical research on effective leadership in all walks of life. Publishes scholarly research and developmental applications from fields of inquiry about leadership.

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

Focuses on topics related to integrity, ethics, morality, etc. in leadership.