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The Last Professors? This is Not a Rhetorical Question.

By Ashley Wollam ⋅ January 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Yesterday a friend of mine pointed out Stanley Fish’s review of Frank Donoghue’s The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities. According to his publisher, Donogue, a professor at The Ohio State University, uses this book as an opportunity to take “a clear-eyed look at American higher education over the last [...]

Self-efficacy as the secret ingredient to effective leadership?

By Ashley Wollam ⋅ October 17, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

(Review of “A Leadership Self-Efficacy Taxonomy and Its Relation to Effective Leadership.”)
What makes that crucial difference between a leader and an effective leader? One study out this month[1] suggests that the key is leadership self-efficacy, which the authors perceive to be
“a person’s judgment that he or she can successfully exert leadership by setting direction for [...]

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