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

About the Author

JOAN V. GALLOS is an award-winning educator, scholar, and academic leader, and Professor of Leadership Emerita at the former Wheelock College. Joan is a sought-after consultant and keynote speaker, especially in the academic STEM and library leadership worlds.
www.joangallos.com

LEE G. BOLMAN is Professor of Leadership and Marion Bloch Missouri Chair in Leadership Emeritus at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Lee consults and lectures worldwide to corporations, public agencies, universities, and schools.
www.leebolman.com