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Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way
How to Be a More Effective Leader in Today's Schools
Second Edition
Edited by:
July 2005 | 216 pages | Corwin
Now you can do more than just deal with the "crisis-du-jour".
Leadership is learnable, and this comprehensive guide will show you how to be proactive, prevent crises, create dreams, push the envelope, and focus on the future instead of just reacting to crises, spending all your time putting out fires, or coping with the current system—whether it works or not. In this updated second edition, best-selling author Robert D. Ramsey gives you just what you need to avoid "simply managing" and to become a true leader instead!
Unlike other manuals that give you bits and pieces on how to develop a particular curriculum or handle specific day-to-day discipline problems, this unique handbook offers administrators practical, time-proven lessons on how to think, act, plan, set priorities, manage time, and make decisions—skills that will help you navigate through the unique challenges of leading in a school environment. Included are guidelines on:
Leadership is learnable, and this comprehensive guide will show you how to be proactive, prevent crises, create dreams, push the envelope, and focus on the future instead of just reacting to crises, spending all your time putting out fires, or coping with the current system—whether it works or not. In this updated second edition, best-selling author Robert D. Ramsey gives you just what you need to avoid "simply managing" and to become a true leader instead!
Unlike other manuals that give you bits and pieces on how to develop a particular curriculum or handle specific day-to-day discipline problems, this unique handbook offers administrators practical, time-proven lessons on how to think, act, plan, set priorities, manage time, and make decisions—skills that will help you navigate through the unique challenges of leading in a school environment. Included are guidelines on:
- Getting the most out of people
- Bringing about change
- Handling politics
- Dealing with setbacks
- Thinking, looking, and acting like an effective school leader
- Communicating effectively
- Practicing ethical leadership
Being a school leader can actually be exciting, rewarding, and fun again, once you're equipped to tackle today's challenges!
Other books by Robert D. Ramsey:
What Matters Most for School Leaders
School Leadership From A to Z
How to Say the Right Thing Every Time, Second Edition
Well Said, Well Spoken
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
About the Author
Introduction
1. Making Decisions
2. Planning for the Future
3. Getting the Most Out of People
4. Bringing About Change
5. Spending Time
6. Handling Politics
7. Dealing With Setbacks
8. Thinking Like a Leader
9. Looking and Acting Like an Effective School Leader
10. Using the Tools of Leadership
11. Communication Tips for School Leaders
12. Practicing Ethical Leadership
13. A Final Word
Resource A: 105 Ways to Be a Better School Leader Tomorrow
Resource B: What Others Say About Leadership
Resource C: A Beginning Bibliography for School Leaders
Index