Appendix:The Research Basis for This Book
WHILE LEADERSHIP IN HIGHER EDUCATION is written as a practical guide to enhance and support the abilities of higher-education leaders at all levels, the principles and practices described are based solidly in research.
Our work on leadership has its origins in a research project we began in 1983. We wanted to know what leaders did when they operated at their “personal best” in leading others. These were experiences in which people set, in their own perception, their individual leadership standard of excellence. We started with an assumption that to discover best practices we didn’t have to interview and survey star performers in excellent companies. Instead we assumed that by asking people at all levels ...
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