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Book SynopsisThis book provides a practical guide to mastering The Knowledge Entrepreneur Toolkit and to establishing High Diversity Groups in universities. Both are key to universities boosting their capacity for innovation and their impact both internally and on major world issues. This is not a traditional academic book. Rather, it represents a practical and pragmatic guide for academics, professional staff and university leaders to develop the skills and cultures needed to work intelligently and creatively with high levels of diversity. High levels of diversity, intentionally assembled, is the key to high performing leadership groups and research groups within universities.
The author challenges academics and professionals within universities to pay as much attention to the development of their intra- and inter-personal skills and knowledge as they do to academic and professional skills and knowledge. He suggests that development of these skills has often been neglected, resulting in the inability of universities to realise the full potential of diversity and to create new knowledge and innovations that add value.
Long standing university cultures and practices are challenged by this book. Yet universities are being required to adapt rapidly to technological and social changes as well as societal expectations. The Knowledge Entrepreneur and High Diversity Groups are two very timely frameworks to enable universities in meeting these challenges.
Trade ReviewThis guide helps academics, staff, and leaders in higher education develop skills and cultures for working with groups that have highly diverse perspectives that inform discourse aimed at generating new ideas about solutions to key issues and using diversity for creativity and innovation. It outlines a toolkit for individuals to develop intrapersonal and interpersonal skills as knowledge entrepreneurs who realize the potential of high-diversity groups and apply their knowledge about problems to diversity-rich, collaborative processes that produce creative insights, new knowledge, and innovations. It explains how to foster university performance through developing competence in the knowledge entrepreneur role and the establishment of high-diversity groups, applying knowledge to university cultures to better deliver their products and services to society and better impact problems facing the world. It describes the knowledge entrepreneur role and the toolkit to develop its skills, including self and social components, then the characteristics of high-diversity groups and the processes to achieve their aims, including how to apply knowledge entrepreneurs to high-diversity leadership and research groups and how to establish and develop these groups. -- Annotation ©2018 * (protoview.com) *
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction
Part One: The Knowledge Entreprenuer 1. The Knowledge Entrepreneur Role 2. The Intra-personal or Self Components of the KE Toolkit 3. The Inter-personal or Social Components of the KE Toolkit 4. The Challenge of Learning
Part Two: High Diversity Groups 5. Introduction To High Diversity Groups 6. The HDG Process Playlist 7. Two Specific Types of HDGs 8. A Hypothetical Example of a HDG 9. How to Develop High Diversity Groups 10. Beyond the Boundaries
