How to lead academic departments successfully [electronic resource] / edited by Adam Lindgreen, Alan Irwin, Flemming Poulfelt, and Thyra Uth Thomsen.

It is an old cliché that leading and managing academics is like herding cats. This book 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...

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