Description
Book SynopsisReframing Academic Leadership Reframing Academic Leadership is the go-to guide for deepening leadership commitment, capacity, and impact. Gallos and Bolman tease out the unique opportunities and challenges in academic leadership and present powerful ideas and tools to guide and assist college and university administrators in:
Creating campus environments that facilitate creativity and commitment Forging vital alliances and partnerships in service of the mission Building campus cultures and shared vision that unite and inspire Crafting institutional structures and strategies that foster innovation and excellence In this updated edition, the authors integrate time-tested conceptual frameworks with rich and compelling real-world cases and tackle contemporary, high-impact issues such as changes in the professoriate and in student populations, funding shortfalls, equity and social justice, the doub
Table of Contents
Preface
About the Authors
Part I: Leadership Epistemology: When You Understand, You Know What to Do
1. A Tale of Two Presidents: Opportunities and Pitfalls in Academic Leadership
2. Sensemaking and the Power of Reframing
3. Knowing What You’re Doing: Learning, Authenticity, and Theories for Action
Part II: Reframing Leadership Challenges
4. Building Clarity and Capacity: Leader as Analyst and Architect
5. Respecting and Managing Differences: Leader as Compassionate Politician
6. Fostering a Caring and Productive Campus: Leader as Servant, Catalyst, and Coach
7. Keeping the Faith and Celebrating the Mission: Leader as Prophet and Artist
Part III: Leadership Pragmatics: New Ideas for Old Challenges
8. Leading from the Middle
9. Managing Your Boss
10. Managing Conflict
11. Leading Difficult People
Part IV: Leadership in a Changing World
2. Coping with a World in Motion
13. Leadership, Governance, and Institutional Survival
Part V: Sustaining Higher Education Leaders: Courage, Hope, and Values
14. Sustaining Integrity: Ethics and Leadership
15. Sustaining Health and Vitality
16. Feeding the Soul
Epilogue: The Sacred Nature of Academic Leadership
References
Name Index
Subject Index
