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Andy Hargreaves - Sustainable Leadership - 9780787968380 - V9780787968380
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Sustainable Leadership

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Description for Sustainable Leadership Paperback. Schools tend to focus on improving schools or remaking them anew rather than sustaining what has been created by past leaders. Similarly, leaders rarely think about how the improvements they make will survive their own departure. In this book, the authors examine what we know about making leadership last in schools. Series: Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 422.

In Sustainable Leadership, Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink address one of the most important and often neglected aspects of leadership: sustainability. The authors set out a compelling and original framework of seven principles for sustainable leadership characterized by Depth of learning and real achievement rather than superficially tested performance; Length of impact over the long haul, beyond individual leaders, through effectively managed succession; Breadth of influence, where leadership becomes a distributed responsibility; Justice in ensuring that leadership actions do no harm to and actively benefit students in other schools; Diversity that replaces standardization and alignment with diversity and cohesion; Resourcefulness ... Read more

This book is a volume in the Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education—a series designed to meet the demand for new ideas and insights about leadership in schools.

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Product Details

Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780787968380
SKU
V9780787968380
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Andy Hargreaves
ANDY HARGREAVES is the Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. He is the author of numerous books including Learning to Change from Jossey-Bass. DEAN FINK is an independent consultant with experience in more than thirty countries. A former teacher, principal, and superintendent, he is the author or coauthor of ... Read more

Reviews for Sustainable Leadership
“highly recommended” (Times Educational Supplement, 6th January 2006) "...a must read for educational leaders and for scholars of educational change..." (Journal of Educational Change, June 2006)

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