Strategic Leadership
Integrating Strategy and Leadership in Colleges and Universities
Series: ACE/Praeger Series on Higher Education
By Richard L. Morrill
0-275-99391-4/978-0-275-99391-7
Description
Morrill describes how to understand and use the strategy process as a form of collaborative leadership in colleges and universities.
Strategic Leadership
is the first book to propose the integration of leadership and strategy as a discipline of practice in academic institutions. The book's unique aspect is that it integrates current ideas about leadership, governance, values, narrative, and strategy into the process of strategic leadership. The author argues that strategy is not just a method of management, but can also be a process and applied discipline of collaborative leadership. In drawing upon contemporary theories of leadership, the book sees leadership primarily as a relationship of "sense-making and sense-giving," which mobilizes and sets directions for the future.
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Merrill, chancellor and professor of ethics at the University of Richmond, addresses themes at the heart of current debates about the capacity of universities to respond to challenges such as market realities, reduced state funding, and globalization. Discussing issues related to strategy, governance, management, and leadership in higher education, he places strategic planning in a new conceptual framework centered on interactive leadership and rooted in human agency and values. The book will assist academic professionals, trustees and other stakeholders, and students of higher education to better understand and use strategic planning as an effective process and as a method of collaborative leadership.
—Reference and Research Book News
Endorsement From Dr. Thomas C. Longin Executive Editor,
Planning for Higher Education
and consultant to Presidents & Governing Boards
This book has two great values: first, it may be the best book yet published on "strategic leadership" in general; second it IS the very best book yet published on "strategic leadership" for 21st century higher education. Indeed, given the thorough and wide-ranging nature of Morrill's study, one can only conclude that this is and will be the definitive statement on strategic leadership in higher education for years to come....
Strategic Leadership
is a must read for presidents, aspiring presidents, senior institutional leaders, board members, strategic planners of all stripes, and for students of higher education desiring to understand the vagaries of academic culture and the complexities of leadership in the 21st Century.
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