Abstract: As a brand-new doctoral graduate looking for a teaching and research position at a university in the 80s, like many of you, I intended to join a major American university to solely focus on teaching and research and intentionally leave the "dirty" job of administration to the unwises. So I often said that I never wanted to be an administrator at a university. Never say "never"! In this speech I will share with you how I managed to expand my knowledge in linear time-varying multivariable control systems, which you could guess stemmed from my doctoral dissertation to obtain my first grant as a small purchase from NASA to investigate closed-kinematic chain mechanism (CKCM) for potential development of robot manipulators for space applications. This initial grant enabled me to ultimately receive a multi-million dollar grant from NASA to develop one of the first CKCM robot end-effectors for high-precision assembly and maintenance of the International Space Station (ISS). Along the way, we solved a number of issues of CKCM manipulators including dynamics, kinematics and intelligent control of these robots. I will also share how I as a very passionately administration-resisting person became a department chair and then a four-term dean of an engineering college totalling 20 years of administration. Key characteristics for a successful academic leader will be presented. Along with the discussion of the dos and don'ts of an administrative job, the stark difference between a manager and a leader will be reviewed. The notion of avoidable and unavoidable enemies in administration will be discussed. Finally I will demonstrate the usefulness of fuzzy logic in successful administration.