Diana Chapman Walsh

The Claims of Life

A Memoir

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The story of how a self-consious schoolgirl who worried she wasn't smart became the president of Wellesley College, and a leader in philanthropy and social change"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9780262048491
• ISBN-10: 0262048493
• Artikelnr.: 67568510

Autorenporträt

Diana Chapman Walsh

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on Sources and Naming ix
1 We Two Form a Multitude 1
2 The New York Years 17
3 A Writing Stick 29
4 I Get on with My Life 43
5 How I Became a College President 71
6 Through the Looking Glass 99
7 From the Inside Out 113
8 The Permanent People 129
9 The Inbox Exercise 145
10 Two Leaders, Two Tightropes 161
11 The Student Shadow 175
12 Turn of the Millennium 189
13 Out of the Blue 201
14 Tests of Leadership 223
15 To Hold in Trust 245
16 The Tin Cup 259
17 How to Leave a Job You Love 277
18 What Matters in the End 293
19 A Life in Dialogue 309
Appendix: Trustworthy Leadership 333
Epilogue 337
Index 341