The Importance of University Leadership

I cannot imagine why anyone would want to run a university. I can't. Like, you take all the good things about a faculty job and subtract them and then add in all these things that are really undesirable. So from my perspective, you lose the intellectual curiosity of doing your own research. You lose the ability to teach incredibly interesting, inspiring students. And instead, you have to be an administrator, a fundraiser, and you have to manage a bunch of tenured faculty that you have no real influence over. Why? Why would anyone do this? Oh, I think you have it really wrong.