Leadership category: 28435 books
Mission-Driven Leadership
Understanding the Challenges Facing Schools Today
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
The leadership skills and behaviors that may have worked for school leaders in the past are no longer adequate to meet the expectations of today’s school communities. With a focus on the leader as a builder of teams committed to accomplishing the primary mission of the school, Mission Driven Leadership...
Leading for Change
Race, intimacy and leadership on divided university campuses
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
This book offers new theoretical ground for thinking about, and transforming, leadership and higher education worldwide. Through an examination of the construct of intimacy and ‘nearness’, including emotional, spiritual, psychic, intellectual, and physical closeness, Jonathan Jansen demonstrates...
The 2 Faces of Leadership
Merging the Best of Both Leadership Styles
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Tracy’s latest book The 2 Faces of Leadership - Merging the Best of Both Leadership Styles is a must read for any leader that is looking to improve his or her team’s outcomes. Tracy believes that there is only two reasons why a team does not perform, either they don’t know or they don’t care....
by Bryan Dodson
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Leadership Ain’t Rocket Science is an easy read with practical advice and exercises you can immediately use to improve your leadership skills. The author has 45 plus years experience in business, non-profit and military leadership positions and he uses an informal, personal writing style to pass...
by Peter Fritz Walter
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
‘The Leadership I Ching’ is a scholarly yet practical edition of the I Ching both for beginners and seasoned practitioners. The special focus of this divination guide is upon leadership, self-leadership and leading others.
The central concern of the author is to help the reader to understand...
Educational Leadership and Moral Literacy
The Dispositional Aims of Moral Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
What makes a moral person moral? Who decides what morality means? What makes leadership practice moral? In today’s schools, what stands as moral leadership? These are questions that reflect the complexity integral to the calculus of human morality, especially in a world that is defined daily by...
by Dan Nielsen, Emily Sirkel
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Drawing from his considerable leadership experience and personal familiarity with the United States Presidential Libraries and Museums, Dan Nielsen takes you on a journey through the life, times, and leadership of 14 former U.S. Presidents.First exploring the libraries and museums that preserve...
by Terri R. Lituchy, Bella L. Galperin, Betty Jane Punnett
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
This book considers the new business environment of modern-day Africa, addressing how management styles must adapt to societal changes across the continent. As investment in the continent grows and African businesses begin to look beyond their own borders, there comes a real need to understand leadership...
Growing Leaders Within
A Process toward Teacher Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Growing Leaders Within: A Process toward Teacher Leadership will aid school administrators in the task of growing and empowering teacher leaders. The goal of growing teacher leaders is to grow a school culture of shared decision-making and collaborative leadership. It is through this transformation...
Leadership Meta-Competencies
Discovering Hidden Virtues
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book doesn't offer overrated success stories which in most cases cannot be imitated. It contains no check lists or recipes for success and it presents no theoretically-based models. The meta-competencies discussed in this refreshing book are timeless virtues of which effective leaders seem to...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Radical Thoughts on Ethical Leadership, provides contributions from established scholars with fresh perspectives on ethical leadership, with challenging viewpoints that have been given little coverage in the literature to date. Radical Thoughts on Ethical Leadership includes theoretical perspectives...
At a Crossroads
The Educational Leadership Professoriate in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
This volume presents the results of a comprehensive study of educational leadership faculty and the departments and programs in which they work. It reports the characteristics, activities, and attitudes of educational leadership faculty members involved in universitybased educational leadership preparation...
Reaching the Heart of Leadership
Lessons Learned, Insights Gained, Actions Taken
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Refine your leadership effectiveness and expand your leadership legacy!
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Whether you’re an aspiring leader, or you consider yourself a veteran searching for a fresh perspective, leadership in an age of disruption, high expectations, and exploding demands is challenging.
In...
Weak Enough to Lead
What the Bible Tells Us about Powerful Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The Bible’s version of leadership is pretty different from—and sometimes alien to—that of the business world. It is also dissimilar from our usual assumptions about what makes a great leader in the church, where we tend to focus on preaching ability, strategic hutzpah, and managerial savvy.
But...