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Turnaround Leadership for Higher Education, international authorities on organizational change Michael Fullan and Geoff Scott reveal how campus leaders can proactively meet the challenges and expectations facing their institutions. They show how certain leadership capabilities and change–capable cultures in higher education institutions must mirror each other—for the benefit of students and their futures, and for the academy and society. The authors draw on a solid knowledge base of change, which advocates for stimulating and integrating strong moral purpose and equally strong partnerships and relationships inside and outside the academy.
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Turnaround Leadership for Higher Education
While academia is slow to adopt change in any form, university leaders are under tremendous pressure to institute change on their campuses in order to keep pace with rapidly evolving conditions. Change leaders at all levels of the university need to grapple with both the content and the process of change.In Turnaround Leadership for Higher Education, 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 how certain leadership capabilities and change–capable cultures in higher education institutions must mirror each otherfor 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 moral purpose and equally strong partnerships and relationships inside and outside the academy. ?Throughout the book the authors examine how successful leaders, no matter what their organization, "listen, link, and lead." In so doing, the leaders bring about change, not by implementing visions from their power 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 beone that will improve the learning experiences of all students. Turnaround Leadership for Higher Education offers a much–needed resource that answers the key questions, "How can universities lead change from within? What should be the focus of the turnaround? What leadership capabilities will be needed to lead this transformation?"