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Leadership in Higher Education: Practices That Make a Difference

Leadership in Higher Education: Practices That Make a Difference

Leadership in Higher Education: Practices That Make a Difference
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Leadership in Higher Education: Practices That Make a Difference

Leadership in Higher Education: Practices That Make a Difference

Overview

The authors of the classic bestseller The Leadership Challenge bring their expertise to higher education, offering five practices that can make any college or university leader into an exemplary leader. 

Drawing on the same pioneering research that formed the foundation of their classic bestseller The Leadership Challenge (over 2.7 million copies sold), James Kouzes and Barry Posner offer a set of leadership skills and practices that will make a significant difference in every area of higher education—faculty, administration, library services, career counseling, auxiliary services, campus safety, and more. It’s about the behaviors that leaders, regardless of their position, use to transform values into actions, visions into realities, obstacles into innovations, segments into solidarity, and risks into rewards. 

Kouzes and Posner tell the leadership story from the inside and move outward, describing it first as a personal journey and then as mobilizing others to want to do things they have never done before. The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership is the operating system for this adventure. Leadership in Higher Education explains the fundamental principles that support these practices and provides case examples of people in higher education who demonstrate each one. 

A core theme that weaves its way through all the chapters is that, whether it’s one to one or one to many, leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow. We need leaders who can unite us and ignite us. This book lights the way.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781523087006
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication date: 09/17/2019
Pages: 208
Sales rank: 687,313
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

James M. Kouzes is the Dean's Executive Fellow of Leadership and Barry Z. Posner is the Accolti Endowed Professor of Leadership at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. They are the coauthors of the award-winning and bestselling book The Leadership Challenge and more than a dozen other leadership books. Kouzes founded the Center for Human Services Development at San José State University and directed the Executive Development Center at Santa Clara University. Posner has been associate dean for graduate programs, managing partner for executive education, and dean for twelve years.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Chapter 1 Leadership Is a Relationship 1

The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership 3

Model the Way

Inspire a Shared Vision

Challenge the Process

Enable Others to Act

Encourage the Heart

The Other Side of the Leadership Story 13

What People Look For in Their Leaders 17

Credibility is the Foundation of Leadership 17

Chapter 2 Model the Way 21

Clarify Your Values 23

Explore Your Inner Territory

Build and Affirm Shared Values

Renew Shared Values

Lead by Example 33

Spend Time and Pay Attention

Turn Critical Incidents into Teachable Moments

Tell Stories to Teach Virtues

Choose Words and Questions Deliberately

Develop Your Competence

Questions for Reflection: Model the Way 42

Chapter 3 Inspire a Shared Vision 45

Clarify Your Vision 47

Discover Your Theme

Explore Your Past

Immerse Yourself

Get Others on Board 55

Listen Deeply

Discover a Common Purpose

Take Pride in Being Unique

Invoke Images of the Future

Practice Positive Communication and Be Expressive

Questions for Reflection: Inspire a Shared Vision 65

Chapter 4 Challenge the Process 67

Seize the Initiative to Improve 69

Encourage Initiative in Others

Make Challenge Meaningful

Look Outward for Fresh Ideas

Experiment and Take Risks 77

Make Small Wins Work

Learn from Mistakes

Promote Psychological Hardiness

Questions for Reflection: Challenge the Process 87

Chapter 5 Enable Others to Act 89

Create a Climate of Trust 91

Facilitate Positive Interdependence and Cooperation

Support Norms of Reciprocity

Foster Face-to-Face Interactions

Produce Social Capital

Generate Power All Around 102

Ensure Self-Leadership

Provide Choices

Build Competence and Confidence

Foster Personal Responsibility and Accountability

Questions for Reflection: Enable Others to Act 111

Chapter 6 Encourage the Heart 113

Focus on Clear Standards 115

Expect the Best

Pay Attention

Develop Friendships

Personalize Recognition

Use a Creative Mix of Recognitions and Rewards

Foster a Spirit of Community 128

Provide Social Support

Be Personally Involved

Questions for Reflection: Encourage the Heart 135

Chapter 7 Leadership Is Everyone's Business 137

Leadership Is Learned 139

Contrasts and Contradictions 142

Keep Hope Alive 145

The Secret to Success in Life 147

Take the Next Step 149

Appendix: The Research Basis for This Book 151

Notes 157

Acknowledgments 171

Index 173

About the Authors 181

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