Presidents need guts

Chad Coauette, “You Know How it Works, It Is a Dance, An Art, Not a Science: Decision Making by Public Two-Year College Presidents.” Leadership 17-1 (Winter 2011): 23-27.

This is a short, but interesting, article on how College Presidents and other senior administrators make decisions about complex issues. Coauette’s conclusion is that personal experience, rather than educational experience, is the guiding factor. “College presidents’ past experiences” he asserts, “inform how they see current events at their institutions …their previous experiences led them to make intuitive or ‘gut’ decisions” (23).