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High Challenge, Low Threat: How the Best Leaders Find the Balance
Mary Myatt
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Description for High Challenge, Low Threat: How the Best Leaders Find the Balance
Paperback. Mary Myatt's standout book shines an uncompromising light on the things that wise school leaders do. Informed through thousands of conversations over a 20-year career in schools, it argues that the best leaders do not shy away from the tough stuff and shows how to create conditions for productive work which transcend day-to-day difficulties. Num Pages: 202 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JNF; JNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 239 x 17. Weight in Grams: 258.
This is a book about the things that wise leaders do. It is informed through thousands of conversations with leaders and argues that these leaders do not shy away from the tough stuff. It points to the conditions which these leaders create to allow colleagues to engage with difficult issues enthusiastically and wholeheartedly. It is taken from observations of leaders at work in a variety of settings. While these are mostly schools, these observations are checked against what is happening in wider leadership and management thinking. This book makes the case that any leadership role is concerned primarily with the ... Read more
This is a book about the things that wise leaders do. It is informed through thousands of conversations with leaders and argues that these leaders do not shy away from the tough stuff. It points to the conditions which these leaders create to allow colleagues to engage with difficult issues enthusiastically and wholeheartedly. It is taken from observations of leaders at work in a variety of settings. While these are mostly schools, these observations are checked against what is happening in wider leadership and management thinking. This book makes the case that any leadership role is concerned primarily with the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Catt Educational
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
202
Place of Publication
Suffolk, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909717862
SKU
V9781909717862
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-99
About Mary Myatt
Mary Myatt has been advising and inspecting schools for 20 years. She is blogs and provides resources for school improvement at http://marymyatt.com/
Reviews for High Challenge, Low Threat: How the Best Leaders Find the Balance
Mary Myatt's new book is a treasury of leadership wisdom and guidance for everyone working in schools today. She provides the antidote to negative, fear-based, toxic leadership by describing ways in which healthy, people-focussed, positive, effective, appreciative and collaborative leadership can arise. Her powerful synthesis of complex leadership concepts and best-practice examples makes this a must-read book for anyone wanting ... Read more