Leadership Expectations: How Executive Expectations Are Created and Used in a Non-profit Setting (Regnum Studies in Mission)

Leadership Expectations is an in-depth study that focuses on how one leader creates and uses expectations to shape a university its culture and its success. This research operates on the underlying assumption that the organization is an expression of the leader and the people they attract. As the personal interpersonal and organizational agendas a leader carries in their mind and enacts in their behavior are understood the organization can be understood. Concurrently at least one major means of organizational transformation emerges: executive development. The result: the leaders personal development and/or lack of it drives organizational performance. The cost: the leaders self-sacrifice energizes the values they most deeply hold for themselves others and the university they lead. The reward is truth revealed about themselves others and their organization: lives are touched and transformed and organizational capacity for good increases.