The Gift of Transformative Leaders

This Element shows organizations flourish through transformative leaders. It shows the leaders Nathan Hatch helped to recruit and empower.

Nathan O. Hatch (Author)

9781009517355, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 16 May 2024

98 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 1.1 cm, 0.28 kg

Great organizations flourish at the hands of transformative leaders. Most organizations remain competitive but are unlikely to advance without impetus. Only exceptional leaders in an organization can fulfill an ambition for real institutional advancement. In this Element, Nathan Hatch, a former university president and provost at two top-30 national universities, draws on their more than forty-year career in higher education to showcase leaders the author recruited and empowered to advance and transform institutions. At each institution, the author witnessed pockets of mediocrity transform into national examples of excellence. Finding the right leader to spearhead the work was the key to growth and success nearly every time. Through the stories of thirteen transformative leaders, Hatch illuminates how the author approached identifying talent and empowered leaders to lead in bold and creative ways.

1. Introduction
2. What is transformative leadership?
3. Carolyn Woo: harnessing ambition to better the world
4. John affleck-graves: renewing an organization by investing in its people
5. Lou Nanni: making everyone a talent scout
6. Kevin white: mentoring the next generation of leaders
7. Jill Tiefenthaler: letting leaders lead
8. Steve Reinemund: linking performance and character
9. Andy Chan: unleashing personal and career development
10. Michele Gillespie: living out institutional values
11. Julie Freischlag: breathing life into the management of medicine
12. Jonathan Walton: speaking with authority
13. Michael Lamb: reimagining character in higher education
14. Dave Clawson: building a sports team of excellence and character
15. Don Flow: advancing the wellbeing of the city
16. Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Management & management techniques [KJM]