Managing Time and Stress: A Guide for Academic Leaders to Accomplish What Matters [Paperback]

The book provides a concise guide to how academic leaders can manage their time more efficiently and thus better cope with the stresses of their position. Rather than focusing on theory or the causes of time and stress pressures for college administrators today, the book focused on field-tested approaches for achieving more of ones priorities and for dealing with the pressures of academic leadership positions. (Academic leaders already know why theyre running short of time and feeling stressed; they dont want more analysis and theory, but rather insights into how they can make things better.) The book is designed for use by individual academic leaders, administrative teams in a retreat, leadership workshops or training programs, and courses in higher education leadership.JEFFREY L. BULLER is the director of Leadership and Professional Development at Florida Atlantic University and a senior partner in ATLAS Leadership Training. He holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has published sixteen other books on academic leadership as well as numerous articles, including nearly two hundred on higher education administration.

Jeffrey L. Buller's Managing Time and Stress: A Guide for Academic Leaders to Accomplish What Matters Most is a must read for anyone who is or aspires to be a leader in today's colleges and universities. Drawing on research and experiences unique to the world of higher education, Buller offer practical, easily applicable advise on how to navigate the ever-demanding, ever-changing terrain of college and university administration. The Department Chair

Jeffrey Buller makes stress and time management both entertaining and achievable. The examples and exercises in this book are invaluable, and I will easily be able to incorporate his clever strategies into my day-to-day life. Every academic leader should have a copy of this book! JoAnne Cascia, Co-Coordinator, SLP Graduate Program, Communication Disorders anlÓ(