Leadership Legacy Moments

Visions and Values for Stewards of Collegiate Mission

By (author) Grady E. Bogue

Publication date:

30 August 2007

Length of book:

144 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

236x162mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780275997786

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.

Chapter 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

Writing 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.