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Date: Jan 17, 2006

Ole Miss Chancellor Search Thread

Date: Jan 17, 2006

Contrast the accomplishments listed in the links above with those of our current "great leader". Paint and street lights - oh yes, and fewer students. Kind of makes you sick, doesn't it.

Date: Jan 17, 2006

A good friend of mine who is a mid-level administrator at Ole Miss told me that Khayat has done "many of the same things Thames has done" -- referring to reorganizations, emphasizing research & economic development, etc. -- but that the difference is how those things were done. It's pretty good validation for the idea that how a leader manages change can be more important than the change the leader effects.

Date: Jan 17, 2006

Invictus wrote:

A good friend of mine who is a mid-level administrator at Ole Miss told me that Khayat has done "many of the same things Thames has done" -- referring to reorganizations, emphasizing research & economic development, etc. -- but that the difference is how those things were done. It's pretty good validation for the idea that how a leader manages change can be more important than the change the leader effects.

As a former professional football player, Khayat doesn't need to go around bullying and abusing people in order to feel like he's a red-blooded American male.

Date: Jan 18, 2006

More Chancellor stories in The Daily Mississippian: http://www.thedmonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/01/18/43ce3ee28c1bb

http://www.thedmonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/01/18/43ce3da10ab43

The story in the second link includes quotes from AKL, including this one-- Lucas, 71, evidently has found his post-retirement niche after 22 years as USM’s leader and four as Delta State University’s chief. “What you do is what the president asks you to do,’’ he said.