Leadership Legacy Moments Visions and Values for Stewards of Collegiate Mission

by Bogue, Grady E.

• ISBN13: 9781607096627
• ISBN10: 1607096625
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-16
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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.

Author Biography

E. Grady Bogue is professor of higher education administration at the University of Tennessee. He served for eleven years as chancellor of Louisiana State University in Shreveport (1980-1991) and for one year as interim chancellor of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He was named chancellor emeritus of LSU Shreveport by the LSU Board of Supervisors in 1991.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
The Spirit of the Enterprise: Distinctions in Collegiate Mission, Culture, and Outcome	p. 1
The Call to Responsibility: Changing Metaphors of Leadership Role	p. 9
A Rejected Russian Major: Leadership Knowledge Domains	p. 17
Boa Constrictors and Other Office Mates: The Artistic Use of Power and Authority	p. 27
Political Ping Pong: The Constructive Uses of Conflict	p. 35
Radioactive Nurses and Reluctant Bursars: Evolutionary and Breakpoint Change in Higher Education	p. 43
New Chancellor on Campus: The Leader as Constructive Pessimist	p. 55
Soul Erosion and Executive Empathy: The Seduction of Leadership Conscience	p. 63
Fish, Books, and Politics: Patience and Persistence Payoffs	p. 73
Leadership Reveille: Open Heart Realities and Leadership Style	p. 83
Pressure and Profanity from the General Manager: Reflections on Leadership Effectiveness	p. 93
Questions of Accountability: Linking Cultures of Evidence and Cultures of Faith	p. 103
Afterword: A Friend of Mind: The Cultivation of a Sustaining Curiosity	p. 115
Index	p. 123
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