Socrates In The Boardroom

Author : Amanda H. Goodall
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781400831586

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Socrates in the Boardroom by Amanda H. Goodall Pdf

Why top scholars make the best university leaders Socrates in the Boardroom argues that world-class scholars, not administrators, make the best leaders of research universities. Amanda Goodall cuts through the rhetoric and misinformation swirling around this contentious issue—such as the assertion that academics simply don't have the managerial expertise needed to head the world's leading schools—using hard evidence and careful, dispassionate analysis. She shows precisely why experts need leaders who are experts like themselves. Goodall draws from the latest data on the world's premier research universities along with in-depth interviews with top university leaders both past and present, including University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann; Derek Bok and Lawrence Summers, former presidents of Harvard University; John Hood, former vice chancellor of the University of Oxford; Cornell University President David Skorton; and many others. Goodall explains why the most effective leaders are those who have deep expertise in what their organizations actually do. Her findings carry broad implications for the management of higher education, and she demonstrates that the same fundamental principle holds true for other important business sectors as well. Experts, not managers, make the best leaders. Read Socrates in the Boardroom and learn why.

Author : Robert Lacroix,Louis Maheu
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780773584839

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Leading Research Universities in a Competitive World by Robert Lacroix,Louis Maheu Pdf

Although research universities represent only fifteen to twenty per cent of national university systems worldwide, they provide the bulk of fundamental research and doctoral training. Written by two veteran university administrators, Leading Research Universities in a Competitive World focuses on the international ranking systems’ uneven distribution of these institutions in industrialized countries, and the organizational factors affecting their efficacy, prestige, and performance. Robert Lacroix and Louis Maheu argue that research universities, despite being embedded within academia’s mindset and rules, have to master market influences and relationships in order to produce new knowledge and attract the rare talent and limited financial assets required for successful research and education activities. Comparing the configuration of higher education systems in the US, UK, France, and Canada, the authors outline the ways in which research universities, which need public funding and have to engage diverse forms of state regulation, may possess sufficient autonomy to behave as independent actors. They demonstrate that reaching an equilibrium between autonomy and state regulation, though challenging, is an essential element in the success of high performing research universities. Leading Research Universities in a Competitive World illuminates the operation of these institutions through substantive quantitative and qualitative datasets to address the fundamental question of why universities perform differently.

Author : Jason Brenner
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780595088898

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From the Boardroom to the Bathroom by Jason Brenner Pdf

From the Boardroom to the Bathroom is the definitive humor book about the 20-something-year-old male. Written by Jason Brenner, whose work has been published in several metropolitan daily newspapers, From the Boardroom to the Bathroom discusses the crucial parts of a young male’s life: sex, beer, and gambling; yet it doesn’t neglect the completely secondary and unimportant parts: relationships, working, and family. From discussing the lump he found on his left testicle to recounting the awkwardness he felt at his high school reunion to describing the proper way to use a corporate men’s room, Brenner pulls no punches as he explains what goes through the mind of a typical 24 year-old male. No topic is left untouched: his relationship with his girlfriend, his feelings about visiting his parents, even his thoughts about his toilet. (As you can tell, this Brenner guy is strictly a class act). From the Boardroom to the Bathroom is a must-read for anyone who wants to learn how to communicate with a 20-something-year-old male…or for anyone who wants to read the pathetically honest accounts of Brenner’s humiliating life. "...ingenious...A head-scratching sign of the times" - Doug Roberts, Philadelphia Weekly

Author : Miriam E. David,Marilyn J. Amey
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 4051 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781529725919

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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education by Miriam E. David,Marilyn J. Amey Pdf

Higher Education is in a state of ferment. People are seriously discussing whether the medieval ideal of the university as being excellent in all areas makes sense today, given the number of universities that we have in the world. Student fees are changing the orientation of students to the system. The high rate of non repayment of fees in the UK is provoking difficult questions about whether the current system of funding makes sense. There are disputes about the ratio of research to teaching, and further discussions about the international delivery of courses.

Author : Scott C. Beardsley
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780813940540

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Higher Calling by Scott C. Beardsley Pdf

A revolution has been taking place in the ranks of higher education. University and college presidents—once almost invariably the products of "traditional" scholarly, tenure-track career paths, up through the provost’s office—are rapidly becoming a group with diverse skills and backgrounds. The same is true for many deans and administrative leaders. In Higher Calling: The Rise of Nontraditional Leaders in Academia, Scott C. Beardsley, dean of the University of Virginia’s prestigious Darden School of Business, offers a new vision of leadership for today’s higher education. Grounded in the author’s own inspirational story of leaving McKinsey & Company in pursuit of a new source of meaning in his professional life, Higher Calling employs research gathered from search firm executives who now play king or queen maker in presidential and dean searches. It also takes into account information from U.S. liberal arts colleges—considered by many to be the bellwethers of change—to explore what set of strengths an institution of higher education needs in a leader in the twenty-first century. Beardsley explores the widely varying definitions and associated numbers of traditional and nontraditional leaders and asks, Why are U.S. colleges and universities hiring nontraditional candidates to lead them into the future? How are the skills required to lead higher education institutions changing? Or has the search process changed, resulting in a more diverse set of candidates? Providing not only an analysis of nontraditional leaders in higher education but also strategies for developing skills and selecting leaders, Beardsley offers a wealth of information for the modern university in the face of change.

Author : William Caferro
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119147121

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Teaching History by William Caferro Pdf

A practical and engaging guide to the art of teaching history Well-grounded in scholarly literature and practical experience, Teaching History offers an instructors’ guide for developing and teaching classroom history. Written in the author’s engaging (and often humorous) style, the book discusses the challenges teachers encounter, explores effective teaching strategies, and offers insight for managing burgeoning technologies. William Caferro presents an assessment of the current debates on the study of history in a broad historical context and evaluates the changing role of the discipline in our increasingly globalized world. Teaching History reveals that the valuable skills of teaching are highly transferable. It stresses the importance of careful organization as well as the advantages of combining research agendas with teaching agendas. Inspired by the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning movement, the book encourages careful reflection on teaching methods and stresses the importance of applying various approaches to promote active learning. Drawing on the author’s experience as an instructor at the high school and university levels, Teaching History: Contains an authoritative and humorous look at the profession and the strategies and techniques of teaching history Incorporates a review of the current teaching practice in terms of previous methods, examining nineteenth and twentieth century debates and strategies Includes a discussion of the use of technology in the history classroom, from the advent of course management (Blackboard) systems to today’s digital resources Covers techniques for teaching the history of any nation not only American history Written for graduate and undergraduate students of history teaching and methods, historiography, history skills, and education, Teaching History is a comprehensive book that explores the strategies, challenges, and changes that have occurred in the profession.

Author : Jiju Antony,V Raja Sreedharan,Ayon Chakraborty
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786348517

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Lean Six Sigma For Higher Education: Research And Practice by Jiju Antony,V Raja Sreedharan,Ayon Chakraborty Pdf

Lean Six Sigma is one of the operational excellence methodologies that has been widely adopted in manufacturing, service and healthcare sectors. There are few articles discussing Lean Six Sigma in the Higher Education context. This book is a collection of articles carefully edited by three academics and practitioners who are based in the Higher Education sector. The book contains state-of-the-art literature review articles, empirical studies, emerging trends on Lean Six Sigma in Higher Education and case study related papers.Lean Six Sigma for Higher Education caters to students, researchers and academics who are interested in understanding the rudimentary concepts of Lean Six Sigma. It also covers the challenges and barriers in implementation and sustenance of this powerful operational and service excellence methodology.

Author : Jetta Frost,Fabian Hattke,Markus Reihlen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319326788

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Multi-Level Governance in Universities by Jetta Frost,Fabian Hattke,Markus Reihlen Pdf

Governing universities is a multi-level as well as a highly paradoxical endeavor. The featured studies in this book examine critically the multifaceted repercussions of changing governance logics and show how contradictory demands for scholarly peer control, market responsiveness, public policy control, and democratization create governance paradoxes. While a large body of academic literature has been focusing on the external governance of universities, this book shifts the focus on organizations’ internal characteristics, thus contributing to a deeper understanding of the changing governance in universities. The book follows exigent calls for getting back to the heart of organization theory when studying organizational change and turns attention to strategies, structures, and control mechanisms as distinctive but interrelated elements of organizational designs. We take a multi-level approach to explore how universities develop strategies in order to cope with changes in their institutional environment (macro level), how universities implement these strategies in their structures and processes (meso level), and how universities design mechanisms to control the behavior of their members (micro level). As universities are highly complex knowledge-based organizations, their modus operandi, i.e. governing strategies, structures, and controls, needs to be responsive to the multiplicity of demands coming from both inside and outside the organization.

Author : Bernd Henningsen,Jürgen Schlaeger,Heinz-Elmar Tenorth
Publisher : BWV Verlag
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : 9783830532088

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Humboldt's Model by Bernd Henningsen,Jürgen Schlaeger,Heinz-Elmar Tenorth Pdf

Author : Tom Kennie,Robin Middlehurst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000383706

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Leadership Transitions in Universities by Tom Kennie,Robin Middlehurst Pdf

Combining expert knowledge, experience and reflections from senior leaders to distil collective leadership experiences, this book explores the realities of leadership at universities rather than the imagined and often-unrealistic expectations and perceptions of how leaders should act. This key text is an informed insider’s guide to leadership transitions that will assist talented individuals in considering whether to apply for, how to prepare for and how to take on the task of leading a university. The collection of leadership experiences provided will help universities to be more successful, students to have great educational experiences and staff at all levels to have more-fulfilling working environments. It will also consider how to avoid the emotional pain and suffering that can arise when leaders find themselves poorly equipped, unprepared, unable or unwilling to provide the sound and competent leadership that universities deserve. Centred on the practice and experience of leadership, this book will be a must-read for all new and existing heads of universities. It will also provide useful insights to those actively involved in the recruitment and development of senior leaders, members of senior leadership teams and those who hold governance roles in universities. Further updates and details about the application of the ideas in the book in practice can be found at www.leadershiptransitionsatthetop.com/.

Author : Fernando Fragueiro,Howard Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139497770

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Strategic Leadership in the Business School by Fernando Fragueiro,Howard Thomas Pdf

Business schools have come under fire in recent years with criticisms centring on their academic rigour and the relevance of business education to the 'real' world of management. Alongside this ongoing debate, increasing international competition and media rankings have led to a fierce struggle between business schools for positioning and differentiation. These are among the challenges that are faced by the Dean of the modern-day business school. In this book, Fernando Fragueiro and Howard Thomas show how Deans of business schools can meet such challenges in terms of strategic direction setting and the execution of their leadership role. Drawing on their invaluable experience as Deans of highly successful business schools, they present a series of case studies to show how leaders of five leading business schools (IMD, LBS, INSEAD, IAE and Warwick) have built effective strategies in the context of internal and external political pressures.

Author : Hartley, Jean,Benington, John
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781447329978

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Leadership for healthcare by Hartley, Jean,Benington, John Pdf

It is vital for healthcare leaders to have a clear sense of which leadership ideas and practices are rooted in sound theory and convincing evidence, and which are more speculative. This book provides a coherent set of six lenses through which to scrutinise the leadership literature relevant to healthcare - leadership concepts, characteristics, contexts, challenges, capabilities and consequences. It offers a view of leadership beyond the traditional focus on the individual, and argues instead that leadership has to be understood and developed as a complex set of practices by many people within specific organisational and inter-organisational contexts and cultures.

Author : Ted Tapper,David Palfreyman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789048191543

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The Collegial Tradition in the Age of Mass Higher Education by Ted Tapper,David Palfreyman Pdf

Much of our writing re?ects a long-term commitment to the analysis of the col- gial tradition in higher education. This commitment is re?ected most strongly in Oxford and the Decline of the Collegiate Tradition (2000), which we are pleased to say will re-appear as a considerably revised second edition (Oxford, The Collegiate University: Con?ict, Consensus and Continuity) to be published by Springer in the near future. To some extent this volume, The Collegial Tradition in the Age of Mass Higher Education, is a reaction to the charge that our work has been too narrowly focussed upon the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge (Oxbridge). Not surpr- ingly, you would expect us to reject that critique, while responding constructively to it. The focus may be narrow, and although the relative presence and, more arguably, the in?uence of Oxford and Cambridge may have declined in English higher e- cation, they remain important national universities. Moreover, as the plethora of so-called world-class higher education league tables would have us believe, they also have a powerful international status. This, however, is essentially a defensive response dependent upon the alleged reputations of the two universities. This book is intent on making a more substantial argument. To examine the c- legial tradition in higher education means much more than presenting a nostalgic look at the past.

Author : Michael D. Mumford,Sven Hemlin
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781784715465

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Handbook of Research on Leadership and Creativity by Michael D. Mumford,Sven Hemlin Pdf

The rapid pace of technological change and globalization of products, competition and services have conspired to place a new premium on innovation for firms across the world. Although many variables influence creativity and innovation, the effective leadership of creative teams has proved especially important. This timely Handbook presents the state of the art for what leaders must do to lead creative teams and how they should do it.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ministerio de Educación
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Estrategia Universidad 2015. The contributíon of universities to Spanish socio-economic progress 2010-2015. October 2010 by Anonim Pdf