Description
Book SynopsisBased on interviews with administrative teams on 15 campuses, this book examines teamwork, considering how and why people on leadership teams think and act as they do, how they learn and communicate, and how they bring their hopes and values into play in the conduct of administrative work.
Trade ReviewAny president, team leader, or team builder can glean a sizable amount of wisdom from Redesigning Collegiate Leadership... The authors provide experiential knowledge on how to build and evaluate a 'real,' complex team. -- Toni Murdock Alliance Reading this work becomes a personal as well as intellectual journey of reflecting on who we are and what we might wish to become as collaborative leaders and team builders. An important journey for any administrator in American higher education today. NASPA Journal
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Leadership by Teams: The Need, the Promise, and the Reality
Chapter 2. A Different Way to Think about Leadership Teams: Teams as Cultures
Chapter 3. What Teams Can Do: How Leaders Use-and Neglect to USe-Their Teams
Chapter 4. Making Teams Work: The Art of Thinking Together
Chapter 5. Searching for a Good Team
Chapter 6. The Relational and Interpretive Work of Team Building
Chapter 7. Reconstructing Collegiate Leadership as a Collective Practice
Chapter 8. toward the Creation of Teams Tha Lead, Act, and Think Together
Appendix A: Sample Interview Protocol
Appendix B: Cognitive and Functional Complexity of Sample Teams
References
Index
