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Universities depend on work that is rarely named, rarely rewarded, and often noticed only when it stops being done. Meetings are prepared, conflicts contained, students supported, colleagues encouraged, crises absorbed, decisions translated, and systems held together by people whose labour often disappears into the background. The Castle Runs on Invisible Work brings that hidden labour into view.
Drawing on years of experience in academic leadership, Bryn Williams-Jones examines what it takes to govern institutions where intelligence, commitment, goodwill, ego, bureaucracy, scarcity, and exhaustion coexist. The book looks beyond formal authority to the real work of leadership: making decisions with incomplete information, protecting people without pretending to save everyone, navigating conflict, setting limits, preserving integrity, and knowing when to say no. Written in candid essays with practical insight and dry humour, this book is for anyone doing leadership work inside a complex institution, with or without the title to match. Its examples come from universities, but its questions reach across public- and private-sector organizations: How do you act responsibly when systems reward avoidance? How do you sustain judgment when the pressures accumulate? And how do you keep doing necessary work without letting the institution's endless demands consume you?
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Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in the School of Public Health (ESPUM) at the University of Montreal. Prof. Williams-Jones is interested in the socio-ethical and policy implications of health innovations in diverse contexts. His work examines the conflicts that arise in academic research and professional practice with a view to developing ethical tools to manage these conflicts when they cannot be avoided. Current projects focus on issues in professional ethics, public health ethics, research integrity and ethics education. Prof. Williams-Jones is Co-director of the Ethics Branch of the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital Technology (OBVIA) and is Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Bioethics. In his bilingual blog BrynStorming, he shares his ideas on bioethics and academic life.
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