Organizational Culture and Higher Education

Edgar H. Schein’s Organizational Culture and Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2010), now its fourth edition, is one of the most important works in explaining organizational culture as well as defining the field. The title is today much more than a course in an MBA; it rates a wikipedia site and can be its own degree program at…

Innovation and Differentiation

Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring’s The Innovative University is an important book. Christensen is the Cizik Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.  Eyring is a long-time administrator at Brigham Young University-Idaho. Bringing them together are shared ties with Harvard and BYU-Idaho, two very different institutions who have charted different paths towards success. Despite a baffling…

Common Sense School Reform

Deborah Meier’s The Power of Their Ideas: lessons for America from a small school in Harlem focuses on the common sense innovations, policies and leadership decisions that made the Central Park East Elementary School and Secondary School (CPESS) a nationally-known success story. A founding co-principal and a driving force in the school’s development, Meier recounts…

Organizational Change in Higher Education – a summary review of the scholarship

Adrianna J. Kezar, an associate professor at University of Maryland and an ERIC higher education editor, summarized a raft of recent scholarship on organizational change in Understanding and Facilitating Organizational Change in the 21st Century: Recent Research and Conceptualizations. The title is a mouthful, and while accurate, an even more precise description would emphasize that…