Using the institutional mission to empower performance -- Setting precedents carefully -- Sharing decision-making criteria to inform requests -- Establishing your leadership credibility -- Building relationships -- Managing interpersonal conflict -- Managing the search process -- Managing performance counseling -- Managing faculty morale, changing duties, and shrinking resources -- Managing up and out -- Managing personal agendas -- Containing the pot stirrer/troublemaker -- Working with the prima donna/drama queen -- Managing the confrontation junkie -- Engaging the passive and indifferent soul.