Affiliation:
1. The State University of New York Empire State College, USA
Abstract
This chapter explores circular leadership—its definition, practices, benefits, and challenges—as an architecture for academic leaders and administrators to frame solutions to ethical, organizational, and stakeholder challenges in the face of change within their colleges and universities. In this chapter, circular leadership is examined in the context of organizational change, the perennial challenge facing institutions of higher education. At its core, circular leadership is not about authority, power, ego, or influence. Rather, it is about community, collaboration, coordination, and cohesive action supporting a shared sense of vision. Circular leadership also offers a new perspective on shared governance, presenting enhanced opportunities for trusted partnerships, collegiality, and sustainable progress that can overcome polarization, distrust, and disunity. At its core, circular leadership enables individuals, groups, institutions, and societies to thrive in times of tumultuous change when long-standing, rigid convention must yield to new, holistic ways of securing desired futures.
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