Description: Most leaders of colleges and universities will take office with accompanying media celebration of their past records and future promise. Each will exit with a legacy. In Leadership Legacy Moments the author reflects upon the ideas, skills, and values that are essential to effe...
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"Bogue (Univ. of Tennessee) gleans meaningful insights about the culture of effective leadership from the personal stories of college leaders as well as his own personal experiences. The book consists of 12 chapters that explain by illustrations and examples how the stewards of collegiate mission--college leaders at all levels including trustees-- can and should function. He also discusses pitfalls to be avoided as college leaders try to construct an ethical legacy. The book is written in an engaging style that explains how ideas and values inform one another. The book ends with an afterword that deals with reflections on what skills and values are necessary for a leader and how the culture of leadership should be implemented. This insightful work will help people who are current leaders, and those who will become leaders, to more effectively become stewards of collegiate mission. Recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections." --Choice
"Writing for college leaders at all levels as well as for trustees, Bogue combines narrative and analysis with the reflective and practical knowledge essential to a constructive legacy. Illustrating how ideas and values are linked in college and university stewardship, he engages questions of leadership content and role, conflict and change management, ethics and accountability, and individual and institutional performance effectiveness." --Reference & Research Book News