Lessons Learned

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Lessons Learned is written by Jeffrey Raffel and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0578595184 (ISBN 10) and 9780578595184 (ISBN 13).

How do you chair a productive meeting? How can you learn from your leadership successes and failures? What factors must be considered in leading major organizational change efforts? How can you overcome obstacles to doing the right thing as a leader? Lessons Learned: A Memoir of Leadership Development is a book for current and future leaders including students, faculty and administrators in public administration, public policy, public affairs, and related fields. Author Jeffrey A. Raffel describes, analyzes, and provides lessons for leaders from the many leadership positions he has held including:¿directing polls in a U.S. senatorial campaign that launched future U.S. Vice President Joe Biden,¿serving as a special assistant for intergovernmental relations to former Delaware Governor Pete du Pont, ¿playing multiple roles in a historic metropolitan school desegregation case--testifying before Congress, serving as an expert witness, and serving as executive director of a committee to prepare the community,¿founding and directing an academic school at a major research university for a decade, ¿founding and serving as the first director of the Delaware Academy for School Leadership,¿founding and rejuvenating several nonprofit organizations,¿serving as president of NASPAA and chairing COPRA, its accreditation commission. Raffel also provides experiences and lessons from his over 40 years serving as a faculty member bridging the gap between traditional academic responsibilities and providing technical assistance and public service to state and local governments, school districts, and nonprofit organizations. He shares his insights on teaching public administrators and provides lessons on how to overcome the academic-practitioner gap in teaching, research, and public service.