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Koch and Fisher have updated and expanded the latter's highly respected 1984 book, Power of the Presidency. In Presidential Leadership, the authors explore the transformational style of leadership in greater depth. This theory is based on a strong, charismatic university president who leads and transforms the university through the power of his or her own vision for the future. The provocative arguments offered throughout the book are based both on empirical studies and on the authors' personal experiences as university presidents. Chapters on total quality management, presidential spouses, and fund raising are new to this edition, as are 11 appendixes offering sample materials for conducting presidential searches.

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• Foreword by
• Introduction
• The Model and the Evidence In the Spirit of Saint Simone
• Research on Leadership and Power: Principles and Evidence Systematic Evidence on the Effective College President
• Presidential Characteristics: Further Reflections Charisma, Public Presence, and the Transformational
• President Gender, Race, and the College Presidency
• Presidential Constituencies and Tasks
• The President, the Administration, and the Spouse
• The President and TQM
• The President and Institutional Governance
• The President and the Faculty
• The President and the Students
• The President and Off-Campus Constituencies
• The President and Politicians, Public Figures, and Bureaucrats
• The President and the Media
• The President and the Alumni
• The President, Philanthropy, and Fund Raising
• Governing Boards and the President
• The President and the Trustees Responsibilities of the Governing Board
• Evaluating the Institution Searching for the President
• Presidential Compensation and Related Matters Evaluating the President Summary
• Summing Up
• Appendixes
• Appendix A A History of Philanthropy
• Appendix B A Policy for Participation at Board Meetings
• Appendix C Initial Letter from Board to Presidential Search Committee
• Appendix D Checklist for the Search Process
• Appendix E Letter for Persons and Organizations Inviting Nominations
• Appendix F Letter to Persons Making Nominations
• Appendix G Tax-Sheltered Annuity/Other Benefits Agreement
• Appendix H A Modified Rabbi Trust
• Appendix I A Sample Trust Agreement
• Appendix J Sample Letter of Presidential Appointment (Public Institution)
• Appendix K Sample Five-Year Employment Contract (Public or Independent Institutions)
• Bibliography
• Index

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CHOICE Review

Collegial leadership is an oxymoron peddled by transactional theorists using unverifiable methodology. Such transactional leadership cannot produce substantive improvement and undermines the mission of higher education to improve economic welfare and enrich the human condition. Those who need this book need it sorely. The authors point out how Brooks Brothers suits impress local aristocracies. The book promotes mystery (i.e., charisma) as science; although only extraordinary persons exercise charismatic leadership, charismatic influence can be accomplished by anyone of reasonable intelligence and strong motivation. (However, on mystery see John Keegan's The Mask of Command, 1987, and Judgment under Uncertainty, ed. by D. Kahneman, P. Slovic, and A. Tversky, 1982.) This dismayingly underedited tract sacrifices its important message by relying on caricature and unwarranted generalization. Forsaking the principle of contradiction, it confuses willing with causing, effect with perception, description with prescription, and prudence with ethics (see Edward G. Rozycki, "Is Moral Leadership Possible?" Philosophy of Education: Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society, 1993, p. 266-274). Graduate; faculty. E. G. Rozycki Widener University

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James V. Koch is Board of Visitors Professor of Economics and President Emeritus at Old Dominion University. He has held teaching and research positions at numerous universities including Illinois State, California State, and Brown University. He has served as a consultant to more than 75 corporations and universities. He is the co-author of the books Born Not Made: The Entrepreneurial Personality, America for Sale: How the Foreign Pack Circled and Devoured Esmark, and The Caterpillar Way: Lessons in Leadership, Growth, and Shareholder Value.

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