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Reframing Academic Leadership, second edition
The new second edition of Reframing Academic Leadership is the go-to guide for deepening leadership commitment, capacity, and impact. Gallos and Bolman tease out the unique opportunities and challenges in academic leadership and present powerful ideas and tools to guide and assist college and university administrators in:
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creating campus environments that facilitate creativity and commitment
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forging vital alliances and partnerships in service of the mission
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building campus cultures and shared vision that unite and inspire
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crafting institutional structures and strategies that foster innovation and excellence.
Threads of continuity and change are woven throughout higher education’s history. They continue as we enter the third decade of the 21st century, magnified by the extraordinary turning point of a global pandemic. Both are central themes in this second edition of Reframing Academic Leadership. So is belief in the vital role of academic leadership for bringing fresh thinking to perennial concerns like access, affordability, and quality.
Engagement: Transforming Difficult Relationships at Work
Engagement: Transforming Difficult Relationships at Work is a manager’s essential primer for dealing with difficult people and facilitating productive teamwork. (Find on Amazon, Barnes & Noble.) Bestselling authors Gallos and Bolman are back with an engaging business novella that illustrates useful and practical techniques captured in the authors’ 4-step SURE model for handling people problems. The story centers around a manager in a new job and her experiences applying the four steps in managing her boss and leading her new team of subordinates. Brief interludes punctuate the story throughout to explore the complex interpersonal dynamics at play in commonly encountered situations and the strategies necessary for responding productively to them. Key lessons are underscored as the foundation for developing a sound “people strategy” at work, and the features and details of each step are laid out in a clear, concise manner. You’ll learn alongside the story’s manager as she uses the SURE model to find artful solutions to problems that could have easily derailed the organization and her chances for success.
Business Leadership: A Jossey-Bass Reader, second edition
A significant revision and expansion of Jossey-Bass’s first, highly successful leadership reader, Business Leadership: A Jossey-Bass Reader (second edition) provides practical advice for new and seasoned leaders. (Find on Amazon, Barnes & Noble.) It explores essential leadership skills and possibilities, tactics for successfully navigating the leadership terrain (and avoiding predictable pitfalls), and ways to support and sustain leaders during the work. An Instructor’s Guide, created by the book’s editor Joan Gallos, offers teaching and training designs and activities to accompany themes and chapters. Click here for the Instructor’s Companion site.
The volume contains a Foreword by Ronald Heifetz, as well as classic and original chapters from the best leadership thinkers in the field: Ron Ashkenas, Karen Ayas, David Batstone, Warren G. Bennis, Lee G. Bolman, Larry Bossidy, Richard Boyatzis, Marcus Buckingham, Charles Burck, Kim Cameron, Keith A. Caver, Ram Charan, Donald O. Clifton, Jim Collins, Bill George, Ronald A. Heifetz, Joan V. Gallos, John P. Kotter, Daniel Goleman, Annie McKee, James Kouzes, Barry Posner, Terrence E. Deal, Andre Delbecq, David L. Dotlich, Peter F. Drucker, Ken Dychtwald, Marc S. Effron, Tamara Erickson, Paul Glen, Loizos Heracleous, Jonathan Hughes, Claus D. Jacobs, Todd Jick, Barbara Kellerman, Marty Linsky, Ancella B. Livers, James MacGregor Burns, Philip Mirvis, Robert Morison, Burt Nanus, James L. Noel, James O’Toole, Robert E. Quinn, Andrew J. Razeghi, Douglas A. Ready, Sandra Robinson, Michael J. Sales, Steven B. Sample, Andrew W. Savitz, Edgar H. Schein, Robert J. Thomas, David Ulrich, Michael Watkins, Norman Walker, Karl Weber, Jeff Weiss.
Organization Development: a Jossey-Bass Reader
This is the third book in the highly successful Jossey-Bass Reader series and a teaching and training mainstay. Organization Development is the one-stop guide to the world of planned change. (Find on Amazon, Barnes & Noble) An Instructor’s Guide, created by the book’s editor Joan Gallos, offers teaching and training designs and activities to accompany themes and chapters that are useful to readers and educators alike. Click here for the Instructor’s Companion site.
The volume opens with a Foreword by Edgar H. Schein, one of the founders of the field of organization development (OD).
Newcomers to OD can read the book cover to cover and explore organization development’s foundation, scope, focus, purpose, and methods. Experienced consultants and change agents will find chapters that capture best thinking on key topics and offer resources for fine-tuning skills, learning about intervention options, envisioning organization development’s future, or reflecting on the larger issues in growth and change. Leaders and managers will find all that they need to understand the route to organizational health and effectiveness and to develop, launch, and nourish successful change efforts. OD has a powerful and influential heritage, solid core, evolving applications and approaches, and a vital role to play in today’s global, fast-paced world of constant change. This volume immerses readers deeply in organization development’s power and possibilities.
Teaching Diversity: Listening to the Soul, Speaking from the Heart
Teaching Diversity: Listening to the Soul, Speaking from the Heart captures the unique nature of the complex work of engaging others to explore, understand, and embrace human diversity in its fullest. The book is the outcome of a developmental project by Gallos and Ramsey, who asked seventeen management educators, a highly diverse group of university professors and corporate trainers all engaged in some aspect of diversity teaching, to join them in a year of learning. Contributors agreed to put aside academic and corporate ways of thinking and writing and to openly explore the personal meaning, nature, preparation for, and challenges of the work. Gallos and Ramsey wove a polyphonic whole from the free-flowing, iterative exchanges among the contributors into what has been described as an honest and realistic portrait of this personal, at times painful, yet always energizing educational work. The book is a staple in a large number of university, corporate, and government teaching and training resource centers around the world, a testimony to the power of multiple and diverse voices speaking openly on common concerns and important issues.
