Frameworks leaders can apply, not theories to admire.
Quinn Koller’s writing turns strategic foresight and decision-making under uncertainty into tools higher education leaders can use.
Decide Now: How to Lead When You Don’t Have All the Answers
Decide Now gives leaders a practical system for making timely, high-stakes choices when information is incomplete. Using the 70% Rule, cognitive-trap awareness, decision audits, and simple scenario testing, it helps readers replace costly hesitation with confident, adaptable action.
The Definitive Playbook for Execution Readiness and Narrative Control
Strategy fails less often from bad ideas than from bad execution and a narrative nobody controlled. This is the playbook for closing both gaps at once.
Stop Automating Bad Processes: The Essential Difference Between Automation and AI
Most institutions aren’t using AI. They’re speeding up broken processes. This book draws the line between the two, and shows what changes when you get it right.
A Proven AI Operating Model Roadmap for Institutions
AI adoption in higher education keeps stalling at the pilot stage because nobody built the operating model underneath it. This is that roadmap.
The Practical Guide to Board Dynamics and Shared Governance Navigation
Shared governance isn’t the obstacle to hard decisions. Misunderstanding how it actually works is. A practical guide to navigating boards and governance instead of around them.
The Uncomfortable Truth About Program Economics and Viability
Every institution has programs it’s afraid to look at too closely. This is the honest version of that conversation, and the framework for having it before a budget crisis forces the question.
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