Presidencies Derailed

<p><em>Presidencies Derailed</em> is the first book to explore in depth why university presidencies fail and how university and college leadership can forestall if not prevent future leadership failures. Former university president Stephen Joel Trachtenberg along with professor Gerald B. Kauvar and former chancellor E. Grady Bogue organize classify and explain patterns of leadership failures drawing on firsthand testimonies from "derailed" university presidents sixteen case studies in four sectors of higher education and reviews of the scholarly literature on leadership failures in the public and private sectors.</p>