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Reframing Academic Leadership

Lee G. Bolman & Joan V. Gallos · 2020
🎙 Narrated by Kris Koscheski
72/100
👍 Worth It

Bolman and Gallos apply the well-tested Four Frames model to the specific realities of academic life — shared governance, faculty dynamics, department chairs navigating up and across — and the case examples throughout keep abstract theory from floating free of practice. Anyone already steeped in Bolman and Deal's broader Reframing Organizations will find the application incremental rather than revelatory, and the audience is genuinely narrow: this is a book for academic administrators, not general leadership readers. Kris Koscheski brings over 400 titles and multiple award nominations to the narration, and the professional, measured delivery is a strong fit for the academic register of the text.

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🎙 Narration: excellent Kris Koscheski (400+ titles, multiple Earphones Award and Audie recognition) delivers a well-suited professional read — for an academic text this is as good as narration gets.

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Originality48
Evidence & accuracy80
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Age-fit78
👁 Human-eye gut-check73
Penny’s verdict72
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