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A Thousand Flowers Blooming

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President Blake's journey to his current position at Georgia State has been a bit different from those of many other academic leaders. From a childhood of pumping gas and bookkeeping for the family business to a career in software engineering, he developed a strong entrepreneurial spirit. Very similar to software engineering.

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Disruption, Evolution, and Leadership

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He serves on the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI); the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Board on Higher Education and Workforce ; the American Council on Education (ACE) Board ; and the Association of Governing Boards (AGB) Council of Presidents. Download on iTunes.

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Lessons in Innovation for Higher Ed

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We try to do that in a very focused way, to match emerging opportunities and emerging resources, to create more platforms and more engines for more of that matching." The biggest killer of innovation initiatives is when the university president or CEO or business unit leader charters a person or a group and says, 'You are my discovery group.

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Unconventional Higher Ed Leadership Paths

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There's another book called On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis, who had been a university president and a combat infantryman in Korea at the Marshall School. Co-Host: Bridget Burns , Executive Director, University Innovation Alliance Dr. Bridget Burns is the founding Executive Director of the University Innovation Alliance (UIA).

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Repairing the College-to-Career Pipeline

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A senior engineering faculty member and some associate business and science deans said, ‘We want to have a conversation with you. Why have you never talked to the university? Other Ways to Enjoy this Post View the Transcript Download on Spotify Follow us to Join LIVE: UIA What are you doing?

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Framework Leadership: An Innovative Approach to Higher Ed Growth: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 151 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Kent Ingle

The Change Leader, Inc.

Those are all traits that are incredibly important for university presidents. I’ve always believed that leaders who carefully attend to the alignment of people, strategies, and processes will create an engine for velocity amidst change. Again, it creates that engine for velocity amid change. Kent Ingle 04:40 Right.

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A Leadership Career in Review

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Hrabowski serves as a consultant to the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Academies, and universities and school systems nationally; and on several foundation boards. Co-Host: Bridget Burns , CEO, University Innovation Alliance. Download on iTunes. Other Ways to Enjoy this Post.