I’mpossible Leading Change

Abstract

I have been in academia for over thirty (30) years and dedicated thirteen (13) of those years as an academic administrator. Put aside junior administrative positions, I served as Dean of Business School (2009-2015), then promoted to Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) (2015-2017), followed by Deputy Director General of Higher Education (2017-2018), and finally Vice-Chancellor (2019-2021). Like other academic administrators, I have learned so much from these experiences. I believe that street lessons are equally, if not more important than theories found in textbooks. Unfortunately, most of those experiences are hidden or not shared publicly. Thus, people are not learning from what has happened in the past to use in the future. Therefore, when I first thought about writing this book, two things immediately leapt into my mind. First, the focus is on the street lessons, the simple and fundamental lessons people often ignore. Second, the book has to be simple and easy to read; with a storytelling style of real-world stories surrounding higher education.