Strategies for University Management

CHAPTER 9

Never Alone: Building an Effective Management Team

Gary A. Dill

Introduction

Educators who become university presidents are often optimistic, positive, forward thinking leaders who confidently anticipate the responsibilities of the position. Only a misguided, naïve, or arrogant university president would attempt to conduct the day-to-day business of a modern university alone. Even the most visionary, iconic, individual educational leader recognizes the need to build an effective management team. The AGB Task Force on the State of the Presidency in American Higher Education, The Leadership Imperative (Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2006), utilized the term “integral leadership” to describe the process of ...