The Challenges of Day-to-Day Administration, June 10, 2014.pptVIP

The Challenges of Day-to-Day Administration日常管理所面临的挑战 When the work seems to get in the way of leadership 当日常工作影响我们的领导力时 * Day-to-Day Administration Robert Birnbaum: three groups of president: the modal 50 per cent the exemplary 25 per cent the failed 25 per cent * A critical aspect of an exemplary presidency is the ability to use one’s time strategically while ensuring the effective day-to-day management of the institution. * Birnbaum 1992, 89–104. * QUESTION When presidents were asked to place themselves in one of Birnbaum’s three categories, where did more than half place themselves? * ANSWER Most presidents believed that they were in the exemplary category. They saw themselves as being strategic in their use of time, focusing on the major things they wanted to achieve while leaving much of the day-to-day to other members of the senior team. * QUESTION: Bargh et al.* interviewed a broad cross- section of vice-chancellors in the United Kingdom to test how they thought they spent their time against how they actually did. What do you think were the results? * Bargh et al. 2000, 37. * ANSWER: The results suggested a significant mismatch between the self-perception of roles as reported in interview data and the objective description of those roles as recorded in observing what vice-chancellors actually did : “The most common [mismatch] is that vice-chancellors define their role as predominantly strategic while spending most of their time on routine management.” * * Bargh et al. 2000, 37. * Day-to-Day Administration Definite danger of letting the office run the office holder. You put your head down in September and suddenly it’s Christmas and you wonder what you have been doing. It is dangerous to confuse frenetic activity with leadership – “I’m really busy so I must be doing a good job!”. * Day-to-Day Administration “David Johnston has a great expression which is that the trouble with being president of the university is that you