A forward-looking guide to helping leaders in education and other fields better prepare students for such challenges as globalization, demographic shifts, and advances in technology.

The latest from Bill Ziegler and David Ramage, Future Focused Leaders, provides school leaders with practical, relevant, and useable strategies for immediate application that promote sustainable innovation in leadership. Organized by three main overviews—Relate, Innovate, and Invigorate—each chapter ends with action steps for school leaders to take in order to strengthen their overall leadership abilities. · Relate: focuses on the effect relationships have on teacher and student success across an entire building; readers will learn strategies for conversational leadership, communication methods, and relationship building to create a culture of sharing and collaboration · Innovate: highlights tools and skills to change leaders’ approach to everyday school processes, incorporate technology, and inspire creativity in both staff and students · Invigorate: addresses the need for educators to return to their roots about why they went into education—to make a difference This book is for any school leader who is committed to building learning relationships, innovating for student success, and invigorating educators to make a difference in the life of every child.

Public education is the vehicle that protects the core values of a democratic society. In the 21st century, leaders who possess the skills and disposition to defend the tower are needed to articulate an educational vision, establish creative problem solving, and foster continuous improvement. This book, which provides information about leadership from eight practicing leaders, addresses these issues. Qualities for Effective Leaders: -Discusses the complexities of leadership -Articulates the need for strong moral leadership -Stresses the need to create learning communities and describes how they work -Portrays the leader as an anthropologist -Identifies the problems that confront school leaders and offers strategies to solve them -Presents the case for financial adequacy for public education Exemplary leaders must develop skills in listening, inspiring others, embracing the leader's vision, and being forthright when addressing issues. The focus on democratic principles, moral and ethical leadership, financial adequacy, and expectations that society has for equity and opportunity are reinforced. This book will be of interest to practicing and aspiring administrators, education professors and policymakers, and legislators.

Diploma Thesis from the year 2002 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1, FH Vienna, 90 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: First, this thesis includes an account of the entire process of deploying a change management project, as experienced at Datentechnik. This study also gives a detailed "road map" and the hours required for each part of the transformation. The second outcome of this thesis is a description of what to do after finishing a change management project. This includes methods to assure continuous improvement and ongoing learning in this new organizational environment. In other words, this is a brief description of how to switch over from rule-breaking and sporadic improvement to moderate but continual improvement. Third, this description also includes the difficulties and lessons learned in the course of the project, giving an answer to the question, "What would you do if you could start all over again?". Fourth, this thesis includes a detailed review of literature on change management and organizational transformation. In other words, it includes a comparison of several approaches to change management and various management methods such as TQM, ISO 9001 and so on.

Fills an important niche on the manager's bookshelf by presenting a practically written discussion of the critical roles leaders play and the impact they have on successful project implementation. It's a comprehensive guide to a wide variety of leadership behaviors -- which you'll find come in handy in everyday life -- but emphasizes a project management-oriented approach to leadership.