How to Lead Academic Departments Successfully

Second Edition
It is an old cliché that leading and managing academics is like herding cats. This timely second edition challenges this myth and presents a way to deal with the many challenges of academic leadership, from managing departments, research groups and teams to managing tensions between research and teaching. The book is a practical and stimulating guide to different pathways to successful academic leadership, both in personal and organizational terms.

Including reflections and advice from experienced leaders, this book provides ideas and updated guidance to help current and aspiring leaders increase their own efficiency and effectiveness across the following areas:

• Dealing with conflict
• Engendering team spirit
• Ensuring diversity and inclusion
• Leading change in business schools
• Leading research groups
• Creating a triple crown business school
• Collaborating with other disciplines and practitioners
• NEW! Sustainable leadership
• NEW! Digitalisation

An experienced group of contributors reflects on their own successes and failures to shine new light on academic leadership to support your own sense of success as a practicing or aspiring departmental head. We also hope that this thoroughly revised second edition will be instructive for those who simply want to understand how this crucial aspect of academic life operates.

Contributor: Adam Lindgreen (Edited by), Alan Irwin (Edited by), Flemming Poulfelt (Edited by)

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