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Intuitive Management
Roger C. Andersen November 1989
Volume: 2 Issue: 18
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Sophisticated systems to assist management processes have become the expected norm in all types of organizations. Systems for budgeting, strategic planning, personnel administration, and decision making have proliferated, particularly as advances in information technology have made greater systematization ever more affordable.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Ten Principles for Managing the Finances of a Nonprofit Organization
Herrington J. Bryce October 1989
Volume: 2 Issue: 17
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The management of every nonprofit organization, including a community college, may be viewed as having three distinct challenges: 1) to uphold and advance the mission of the organization, 2) to oversee the performance of the organization's personnel, and 3) to advance and preserve its financial well-being. Each of these is a major task demanding its own expertise.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Retaining a Peak-Performing President
Terry O'Banion September 1989
Volume: 2 Issue: 16
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It is widely accepted that the most important task of a board of trustees is to select the right president for the job. It follows that the second most important task of a board is to hold on to a president when it has a good one.Various reports and commissions conclude that the presidency of a college or university is a difficult, if not impossible, job, and the presidency of a community college is even less attractive than others. Given this picture, a board would be well- advised to make every effort to hold on to a president who is a peak performer.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Visionary Leadership and Long-Range Planning
Jeff Hockaday, Don Puyear September 1989
Volume: 2 Issue: 15
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All serious college leaders engage in planning for the future of their institutions. Planning models of various kinds have come in and out of fashion. Unfortunately, too many of these models have been overly complex and cumbersome and have contributed to some reluctance among community college leaders to invest scarce resources in elaborate planning processes.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Ethical Suspicions Between Faculty And Administrators
Donald E. Walker August 1989
Volume: 2 Issue: 14
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Accusations of unethical behavior by faculty and administrators inevitably accompany conflict; however, truly unethical behavior in colleges is rare. Standards of right and wrong behavior are fundamental to academia. Rare cases of misconduct, such as falsifying results of laboratory experiments, are widely publicized precisely because they are so uncommon.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Therapeutic Leadership
John H. Anthony August 1989
Volume: 2 Issue: 13
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Social, economic, and technological forces have forged an extraordinary period of change and a time of exciting opportunity. Changing conditions challenge political, educational, and corporate leaders in all organizations to throw off the vestiges of past ineffective management and leadership practices ones steeped in control, imagery, structure, authoritarianism, power, fear, and rigidity and to develop and implement new organizational and leadership practices that allow greater flexibility, increase responsiveness, and promote vision and creativity.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
A Foundation for Renewal
Albert L. Lorenzo July 1989
Volume: 2 Issue: 12
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Educational leaders should be judged by their ability to maximize both organizational performance and mission effectiveness. In most industries, above average performance and organizational vitality are usually easier to achieve during periods of sustained growth. The real test of leaders and their organizations typically comes when growth begins to give way to stability or decline. At this point, continued institutional success may depend more heavily on leadership than on any other factor.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Global Perspectives Required of College Leaders
Robert A. Gordon July 1989
Volume: 2 Issue: 11
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Post-industrial information society has taken root. What had seemed distant projections of futurists are now the facts of a global economy and geopolitical scene being fundamentally transformed.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
The Moral Goals of Leadership
John W. Gardner June 1989
Volume: 2 Issue: 10
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We generally evaluate leaders on their effectiveness. But Hitler was effective, as were any number of leaders we would today agree were "bad guys" who used objectionable means or who sought goals that were reprehensible. Certainly, leaders must also be judged in terms of their moral ethical, and social values. While such standards are something on which worthy people will differ, leaders who are concerned with most or all of the following will meet my standards.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Alumni Associations: Valuable Resources for Community, Colleges
Paul C. Gianini, Jr. May 1989
Volume: 2 Issue: 9
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Some believe community college alumni associations cannot be the significant resource that they are for four-year colleges and universities. They reason that the average student does not develop the same affiliation with a two-year college that he or she does with a four-year institution. Community college students generally do not live on campus, so the school does not become a "home away from home." Commuter students generally do not develop the same involvement in campus activities, and even in colleges with residential facilities, resident students tend to be in the minority.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
The "Emotional Side" of Management
Tom Peters May 1989
Volume: 2 Issue: 8
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At a recent seminar for a business school's executive program, I recounted some stories about workplace transformations. Each resulted from a dramatic increase in the involvement and self- esteem of front- line employees. I expressed astonishment at the apparently limitless skills of even older workers in union settings, once they were allowed to "own" (psychologically, that is) their 25 or 250 square feet of the workplace. I fumed at our detached, machine- like models of organization that are hindering such transformations.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Accommodating The Diversity Representing By Minority Students
James C. Henderson April 1989
Volume: 2 Issue: 7
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It is an often noted fact that the United States is undergoing an unprecedented demographic transformation and that these changes, resulting in a "new majority" of minority group members in many states, have major implications for educational institutions. Community colleges throughout the country are scrambling to develop programs that address the needs of these current and future students, and these have been described in various forums, including previous issues of this abstract series.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Transactional, Transformational, and "Trans-Vigorational" Leaders
Estela M. Bensimon April 1989
Volume: 2 Issue: 6
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The idea of transformational leadership in higher education appears irresistible to leaders and non-leaders alike. Even though transformational leadership may only be possible in rare circumstances by even rarer individuals, it has also captured the interest of organizational scholars.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
2001: The World Our Students Will Enter
Louis Harris March 1989
Volume: 2 Issue: 5
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In the 1990s, the configuration of the world will change dramatically. By 1992, Western Europe will form a new economic entity that will make the U.S. the world's number two economic power. By the year 2001, the U.S. might well be number three, also behind a southeastern sphere of influence headed by Japan. The Soviet sphere will exist, but will rank far down economically from the other economic superpowers. These configurations will require that all economic activity be oriented globally, or not survive.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
MBO Revisited
Edward J. Liston March 1989
Volume: 2 Issue: 4
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Calls for accountability from state legislatures, accrediting agencies, and other external constituencies are not likely to abate. Community colleges will continue to be challenged to demonstrate their effectiveness in performing the missions that society has set for them.
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