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Book SynopsisWritten for college leaders at all levels as well as for trustees, this book engages the reader, via narrative and analysis, with the reflective and the practical knowledge essential to a constructive legacy. Leaders of colleges and universities hold in trust an enterprise of complex mission, governance, and outcome. Most will take office with accompanying media celebration of their past records and future promise. Each will exit with a legacy. A few will leave behind tragic legacies of defeated spirits, corrupted organizations, and shameful ethical records. In Leadership Legacy Moments, the author reflects upon the ideas, skills, and values that are essential to effective leadership so that a leader leaves behind a student body with great promise, a set of accomplishments achieved in concert with faculty and staff, and an institutional culture that inspires curiosity, courage, and compassion. Professor Bogue illustrates how ideas and values are linked in the stewardship of one of our nation's premier organizational enterprises. The book is about constructing a leadership legacy that is both effective and ethical.
Trade ReviewWriting for college leaders at all levels as well as for trustees, Bogue combines narrative and analysis with the reflective and practical knowledge essential to a constructive legacy. Illustrating how ideas and values are linked in college and university stewardship, he engages questions of leadership content and role, conflict and change management, ethics and accountability, and individual and institutional performance effectiveness. * Reference and Research Book News, November 2007 *
Leadership Legacy Moments is a wonderful blend of organizational theory and leadership principles tied together by rich personal experiences that make it an interesting and powerful read. It is a great text for those interested in careers in higher education administration and for those who want to experience what leadership in modern colleges and universities is really like. -- Allen Edwards, president, Pellissippi State Technical Community College, Knoxville
The author is both a scholar and skilled practitioner of the science and art of leadership. While this book provides an excellent overview of the different dimensions of the functions and methods of leadership, its major contribution is the thoughtful articulation of the key role of civility and integrity in the discharge of a leader's duties. At a time when ethical lapses are too frequently in the news, the book is a cogent reminder that institutional leadership is a special calling that requires not only knowledge and skill, but a set of values that reflects our highest aspirations for our institutions and the students who are educated within. -- Dennis Jones, president, National Center for Higher Education Management/Systems, Boulder
For college and university administrators and managers who wish to become genuine campus leaders, Bogue's book is essential reading. The challenge is not to go from good to better, but rather from smart to wise. Bogue's combination of scholarship and experience helps us achieve this by bringing sorely needed insight to decision making in the American 'Knowledge Enterprise' of the twenty-first century. -- John Thelin, university research professor, University of Kentucky
Bogue (Univ. of Tennessee) gleans meaningful insights about the culture of effective leadership from the personal stories of college leaders as well as his own personal experiences. The book consists of twelve chapters that explain by illustrations and examples how the 'stewards of collegiate mission'—college leaders at all levels including trustees—can and should function. He also discusses pitfalls to be avoided as college leaders try to construct an ethical legacy. The book is written in an engaging style that explains how ideas and values inform one another. The book ends with an afterword that deals with reflections on what skills and values are necessary for a leader and how the culture of leadership should be implemented. This insightful work will help people who are current leaders, and those who will become leaders, to more effectively become 'stewards of collegiate mission.' Recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections. * CHOICE, May 2008 *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 The Spirit of the Enterprise: Distinctions in Collegiate Mission, Culture, and Outcome Chapter 3 The Call to Responsibility: Changing Metaphors of Leadership Role Chapter 4 A Rejected Russian Major: Leadership Knowledge Domains Chapter 5 Boa Constrictors and Other Office Mates:The Artistic Use of Power and Authority Chapter 6 Political Ping Pong: The Constructive Uses of Conflict Chapter 7 Radioactive Nurses and Reluctant Bursars: Evolutionary and Breakpoint Change in Higher Education Chapter 8 New Chancellor on Campus: The Leader as Constructive Pessimist Chapter 9 Soul Erosion and Executive Empathy: The Seduction of Leadership Conscience Chapter 10 Fish, Books, and Politics: Patience and Persistence Payoffs Chapter 11 Leadership Reveille: Open Heart Realities and Leadership Style Chapter 12 Pressure and Profanity from the General Manager: Reflections on Leadership Effectiveness Chapter 13 Questions of Accountability: Linking Cultures of Evidence and Cultures of Faith Chapter 14 Afterword: A Friend of Mind: The Cultivation of a Sustaining Curiosity
