READINGS FOR ADMINISTRATORS

Managing and Preserving

• Develop positive working relationships with other peer leaders/administrators (partner orientation).
• Leaming, D.R. (Ed.) (2003) Managing people: A guide for department chairs and dean. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing. Chapters 1, 2.
• Badaracco, J.L. (2002). Leading quietly: An unorthodox guide to doing the right thing. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
• Kegan, R. and Lahey, L.L (2001). How the way we talk can change the way we work: Seven languages for transformation. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Develop positive working relationships with upper administration.

• Leaming, D.R. (1998) Academic leadership: A practical guide to chairing the department. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing. Chapter 23.
• Kegan, R. and Lahey, L.L (2001). How the way we talk can change the way we work: Seven languages for transformation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Plan for succession (identifying leadership candidates early, providing them with growth assignments, giving them useful feedback, and coaching them).

• Leaming, D.R. (1998) Academic leadership: A practical guide to chairing the department. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing. Chapters 5, 8, 21.

Plan and implement initiatives (so that work is completed on time).

• Leaming, D.R. (1998) Academic leadership: A practical guide to chairing the department. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing. Chapters 2, 19.

Improve processes and functions.

• Leaming, D.R. (1998) Academic leadership: A practical guide to chairing the department. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing. Chapters 3, 6, 14, 24.
• Drucker, P. (2002). The effective executive. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.

Relating and Group Development

Develop mutual trust.

• Bennis, W. (2003). On becoming a leader. Cambridge, MA: Persus Publishing.
• Badaracco, J.L. (2002). Leading quietly: An unorthodox guide to doing the right thing. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
• Kegan, R. and Lahey, L.L (2001). How the way we talk can change the way we work: Seven languages for transformation. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Communicate with people who are different than you (e.g., demographically, culturally, racially).

• Esty, K., Griffin, R., and Hirsh, M.S. (1995). Workplace diversity: A manager’s guide to solving problems and turning diversity into a competitive advantage. Holbrook, MA: Adam Media Publishing.
• Thiederman, S. (2003). Managing diversity work: Seven steps for defeating bias in the workplace. Chicago, IL: Dearborn Publishing.
• Leaming, D.R. (1998) Academic leadership: A practical guide to chairing the department. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing. Chapters 9, 10, 13, 25.

Manage personnel (hiring, assigning working, motivating, coaching, assessing work of others, communicating with "difficult" people).

• Kellerman, B. (2004). “How bad leadership happens,” Leader to Leader, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, pp. 41-46.
• Leaming, D.R. (1998) Academic leadership: A practical guide to chairing the department. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing. Chapters 5, 8, 11, 12, 17.

Delegate, and foster teamwork and participative decision making.

• Block, P. (1991). The empowered manager: Positive political skills at work.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Ch. 5 (Building Support for Your Vision: Negotiating with Allies and Adversaries) pp.137-160.
• Leaming, D.R. (Ed.) (2003) Managing people: A guide for department chairs and dean. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing. Chapters 4, 5, 8.

Strategic Change

Foster vision and strategic planning.

• Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1993). The evolving self: A psychology for the third millennium. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Ch. 7 (Evolution and flow) pp. 175-206.
• Heifetz, R.A. and Laurie, D.L. (2001). The work of leadership. The Best of Harvard Business Review, pp. 131-141.
• Kouzes, J.M., and Posner, B.Z. (2003). Academic adminstrator’s guide to exemplary leadership. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Understand and align the department, college and university cultures.

• Palmer, P.J. (1992). Leading from within: Reflections on leadership and spirituality. Washington, D.C.: Servant Leadership Press.
• Moss-Kanter, R. (2004). Confidence: How winning streaks and losing streaks begin and end. New York: Crown Business, Ch. 11 (Delivering confidence; The work of leaders) pp. 325-349.

Lead change (being a change agent)

• Argyris, C. (1991), "Teaching Smart People How to Learn,"  Harvard Business Review, May-June.
• Kotter, J.P. (2002). The Heart of Change. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
• Quinn, R. (1996). Deep change: Discovering the leader within. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc.