Title: Pedestals Parapets & Pits: The Joys, Challenges & Failures of Professional Life
Publisher: Phoenix Intl Inc
Publication Date: 2005
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0976800705
ISBN 13: 9780976800705
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Higgins, W. Dustin
Condition: Very Good

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2005 Phoenix International hardcover. Robert V. Smith (Where You Stand Is Where You An Academic Administrator's Handbook). This book offers a model for professional growth and development in the twenty-first century. Pedestals--metaphors for the glories of professional life--are described as communicating and serving others, conducting strategic planning, understanding diversity, and becoming an integrated professional. Pedestals offer sources of encouragement, optimism, and hope, but are challenged by parapets and dashed by the pits of professional life. Parapets serve as pivot points, either stimulating a rededication to pedestal-type efforts or leading--unfortunately--to pits. The parapets and pits are described in chapters dealing with ambition and aggression, jealousy and envy, drama and manipulation, forthrightness and angst, love and lust, and selectivity and prejudice, among others. - Amazon

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Bob Smith has served U.S. higher education as a faculty member and as an administrator at five research universities. Currently, he is provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Arkansas.

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