International authorities on organizational change Michael Fullan and Geoff Scott reveal how campus leaders can proactively meet challenges and expectations facing their institutions. They show certain leadership capabilities and change-capable cultures in higher education institutions must mirror each other--for the benefit of students and their futures, the academy, and society. The authors draw on a solid knowledge base of change, which advocates for stimulating and integrating strong and moral purpose and equally strong partnerships and relationships inside and outside the academy. The book examines how successful leaders, no matter what their organization, ‘listen, link, and lead.’ In doing so, the leaders bring about change, not by implementing visions from theirpower base, but by reconciling divisions to achieve reform that motivates different groups to unify their change efforts. Fullan and Scott also show what the focus of change should be--one that will improve the learning experiences of all students. We must understand learning leadership in its complexity and view it as a career-long learning process while always seeing it in the serviceof leadership for what. The turnaround agenda outlined in this book furnishesthe answer. This agenda is about: focusing on knowledge that combines critical analysis and practical judgment in real-life situations making teaching and learning the centerpiece of postsecondary institutions and synergistically integrate them with research and service establishing quality reviews and evidence-based inquiry as the primary strategy for continuous improvement building leadership whose strength is carrying out the agenda contained in the previous three items. In this latter respect, what works for institutions works for individuals. That is, change-capable institutions are made up of change-capable individuals, especially change-capable leaders. Turnaround Leadership for HigherEducation answers the key questions: How can universities lead change from within? What should be the focus of the turnaround? What leadership capabilitieswill be needed to lead the transformation? "
- ISBN: 978-0-470-47204-0
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha Publicación: 02/04/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés