Bill Scott
3 January 2013

Turnaround Leadership for Sustainability in Higher Education

Posted in: Comment, New Publications

A summary report on the Turnaround Leadership for Sustainability in Higher Education project landed on my desktop today.  The full report is at the AGOTL.

As I skimmed it, I noticed two things:

  • 9 out of the 15 citations come from the work of the project leader (who's not the usual suspect in these matters).  This seems to set a new record for self-esteem
  • the focus is on leadership for EfS, rather than leadership of HE institutions, per se, and thus seems to miss the point (as I noted in a previous post)

Two good reasons not to spend further time on it.  Back to that good book ...

Posted in: Comment, New Publications

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