Leadership Legacy Moments: Visions and Values for Stewards of Collegiate Mission (ACE/Praeger Series on Higher Education)

Most leaders of colleges and universities will take office with accompanying media celebration of their past records and future promise. Each will exit with a legacy. 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. Brogue 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. Written 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. We may hope for collegiate leaders who will leave behind faculty and staff talents of greater promise, worthy goals achieved in concert with faculty and staff, and value cultures that inspire curiosity, courage, and compassion. In this book, the author reflects upon the ideas, skills, and values that are essential to effective leadership. He 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. Chapters 1 and 2 engage questions of leadership content and role, inviting the reader to consider the nature of the collegiate enterprise and the evolution of leadership role metaphors. Chapters 3-6 attend primarily to matters of knowledge and tactic in the leadership of colleges and universities. Chapters 7-10 explore important leadership values, with Chapter 7 serving as a bridging chapter that explores the power of high expectations as a motivational tactic. It also examines the counterpoint idea of remembering the darker and more destructive motives that some folks may exhibit. Finally, Chapters 11 and 12 examine questions of individual and institutional performance effectiveness. The afterword presents a retrospective reflection. An index is also included. (Individual chapters contain endnotes.) Written 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. In Leadership Legacy Moments The Author Reflects Upon The Ideas, Skills, And Values That Are Essential To Effective Leadership. He 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.--book Jacket. The Spirit Of The Enterprise : Distinctions In Collegiate Mission, Culture, And Outcome -- The Call To Responsibility : Changing Metaphors Of Leadership Role -- A Rejected Russian Major : Leadership Knowledge Domains -- Boa Constrictors And Other Office Mates : The Artistic Use Of Power And Authority -- Political Ping Pong : The Constructive Uses Of Conflict -- Radioactive Nurses And Reluctant Bursars : Evolutionary And Breakpoint Change In Higher Education -- New Chancellor On Campus : The Leader As Constructive Pessimist -- Soul Erosion And Executive Empathy : The Seduction Of Leadership Conscience -- Fish, Books, And Politics : Patience And Persistence Payoffs -- Leadership Reveille : Open Heart Realities And Leadership Style -- Pressure And Profanity From The General Manager : Reflections On Leadership Effectiveness -- Questions Of Accountability : Linking Cultures Of Evidence And Cultures Of Faith -- Afterword : A Friend Of Mind : The Cultivation. E. Grady Bogue. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. CONTENTS......Page 8 Preface......Page 10 CHAPTER 1 The Spirit of the Enterprise: Distinctions in Collegiate Mission, Culture, and Outcome......Page 16 CHAPTER 2 The Call to Responsibility: Changing Metaphors of Leadership Role......Page 24 CHAPTER 3 A Rejected Russian Major: Leadership Knowledge Domains......Page 32 CHAPTER 4 Boa Constrictors and Other Office Mates: The Artistic Use of Power and Authority......Page 42 CHAPTER 5 Political Ping Pong: The Constructive Uses of Conflict......Page 50 CHAPTER 6 Radioactive Nurses and Reluctant Bursars: Evolutionary and Breakpoint Change in Higher Education......Page 58 CHAPTER 7 New Chancellor on Campus: The Leader as Constructive Pessimist......Page 70 CHAPTER 8 Soul Erosion and Executive Empathy: The Seduction of Leadership Conscience......Page 78 CHAPTER 9 Fish, Books, and Politics: Patience and Persistence Payoffs......Page 88 CHAPTER 10 Leadership Reveille: Open Heart Realities and Leadership Style......Page 98 CHAPTER 11 Pressure and Profanity from the General Manager: Reflections on Leadership Effectiveness......Page 108 CHAPTER 12 Questions of Accountability: Linking Cultures of Evidence and Cultures of Faith......Page 118 Afterword: A Friend of Mind: The Cultivation of a Sustaining Curiosity......Page 130 Index......Page 138 Written 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.