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Peak Performance for Deans and Chairs - Reframing Higher Education''s Middle

English · Paperback / Softback

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This book analyzes the behavior of chairs and deans through the political, structural, human resources, and symbolic frames. Lessons learned from the negative as well as the positive scenarios are highlighted, enabling deans and chairs to easily adapt them to their own situations.

List of contents










Chapter 1 Introduction: Trapped Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Chapter 2 The Way It Is: Ferreting Out Root Stresses and Plotting New Tactics
Chapter 3 Change: Stifling Bedlam and Taming Turbulence
Chapter 4 Faculty: Confronting Creeps and Cliques
Chapter 5 Resources: Stepping Up to Cut Backs
Chapter 6 Bosses: Winning over the Higher-ups
Chapter 7 The Way It's 'Spozed' To Be: Leadership in Action
Chapter 8 Conclusion: Practice and Perseverance


About the author










Susan Stavert Roper served in the roles of both dean and department chair for 19 years in California and Oregon. She taught in an annual leadership academy for new deans across the country, served as chair of her state's association of education deans, and organized a network of chairs and deans to support educational reform K-16.
Terrence Deal is the author of more than 30 books on leadership including, Reframing Organizations (2003). He has served on the faculty of Stanford, Harvard, Vanderbilt and the University of Southern California and is an international consultant to educational, business, health-care and religious organizations.


Summary

This book analyzes the behavior of chairs and deans through the political, structural, human resources, and symbolic frames. Lessons learned from the negative as well as the positive scenarios are highlighted, enabling deans and chairs to easily adapt them to their own situations.

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