Indeed, the guidelines go hand in hand. A typical new dean understands the role of faculty and the range of tasks necessary to effective teaching and research. The new dean may not have any idea how to manage the physical structures, make arrangements for events, deal with outside vendors, and perform all the other functions necessary to the operation of a modest sized enterprise. A good professional staff is invaluable and essential in order to focus energies on the primary scholarly and educational missions. Despite a high rate of turnover, the job of being a law school dean is interesting, challenging, and even a good deal of fun from time to time.
Turnover often is the result of disappointed expectations or some misunderstanding of the job.
A person becomes a law professor to pursue scholarly ideas, to teach, and to have the luxury of time to do both thoroughly and well. The jobs of law deans are more similar to those of upper level management in a business enterprise. There is rarely the luxury of time for serious research and writing. There are meetings, budgets, development calls, alumni gatherings, university committees, personnel matters, and so forth that demand immediate and constant attention. But with reasonable expectations on all sides, the job is rewarding and manageable.