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Web Sites (all sites will open in a new window)
Leadership for Learning
from the Center for School and Community Development at the North Central Regional Educational
Laboratory provides information on NCREL's leadership activities; full-text versions of back issues of
New Leaders for Tomorrow's Schools; and a comprehensive, research-based checklist to help principals, teacher leaders, and parent leaders assess their practice
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Books
The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness by Tom Peters, 1997. From one of America's most respected business thinkers comes a practical handbook for turning any organizations including schools into a perpetual innovation machines--the one thing that they must be if they are to compete in the permanently chaotic new world of global business.
The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge, 1990. Senge's path-breaking book draws on science, spiritual wisdom, psychology, and the cutting edge of management thought to show how businesses can overcome their "learning disabilities" and beat the odds of failure. The book provides a searching personal experience and a dramatic professional shift of mind.
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge (Editor), Charlotte Roberts, & Richard B. Ross, 1994. A step-by-step guide to establishing learning organizations within existing companies. It functions as a participative workbook, with exercises for both individuals and teams, suggested approaches and ideas, and success stories.
Leadership and the New Science: Learning About Organization from an Orderly Universe by Margaret J. Wheatley, 1992. "Hold onto the top of your head when you read this book. . . . Using exciting breakthroughs in biology, chemistry, and especially quantum physics, Wheatley paints a brand-new picture of business management. This new relationship between business and science is nothing less than an entirely new set of lenses through which to view our organizations."
Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership by Joseph Jaworski, 1996. Synchronicity is an inspirational guide to developing the most essential leadership capacity for our times--the ability to collectively shape our future. Through the telling of his remarkable journey to an understanding of the deep issues of leadership, Jaworski offers a new definition of leadership that applies to all types of leaders. His personal story encourages and enlightens all of us we wrestle with the profound changes required in public and institutional leadership, and our individual lives, for the 21st century.
Thinking in the Future Tense: Leadership Skills for New Age by Jennifer James, 1996. Much is said these days about building bridges to the 21st century, and savvy business people are constantly on the lookout for ways to make this colorful metaphor into reality. Thinking in the Future Tense: Leadership Skills for a New Age, by author and business lecturer Jennifer James, clearly establishes the framework for a real-world transition. James suggests what conduct might be necessary for long-term success and explains how it should be implemented
Total Leaders: Applying the Best Future-Focused Change Strategies to Education by Charles Schwabn & Bill Spady, 1998. This book contains the distillation of over 100 different books on leadership. It outlines the purposes, patterns, performance roles and change strategies that constitute Total Leadership. In my humble opinion this is one of the best books on leadership out there on the market today. It should be a must read for anyone taking a leadership role in change
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