Beschreibung:
Leaders and aspiring leaders are constantly searching for role models who are successful in placing leadership theory into effective practice. This book identifies ten such role models whose heroic leadership behavior is analyzed in order to reveal what particular abilities and skills made them successful and how those attributes can be applied to one’s own leadership practice, whether that be as a classroom teacher, a principal, or a superintendent of schools.
Leaders and aspiring leaders are constantly searching for role models who are successful in placing leadership theory into effective practice. This book identifies ten such role models whose heroic leadership behavior is analyzed in order to reveal what particular abilities and skills made them successful and how those attributes can be applied to one’s own leadership practice, whether that be as a classroom teacher, a principal, or a superintendent of schools.
1 Contemporary Leadership Theory
2 Leading with Heart
3 Noah Webster
4 Horace Mann
5 Booker T. Washington
6 Charles William Eliot
7 Marie Montessori
8 Robert Hutchins
9 John Dewey
10 Paulo Freire
11Theodore Hesburgh
12 Marcus Foster
13 Leadership Lessons Learned
Appendix: Diagnostics
References
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