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Title: Leading in a Culture of Change
ISBN: 0787953954
Author:
Michael Fullan
Publicate Date: 2001-06-20
Publish: 2001-06-20
List Price: $26.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Hardcover
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1: Leading in a Culture of Change (
Great summmary and update on latest leadership styles and models. I liked the way they simplified terms and made the comparisons easy to understand.
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2: Copy and Paste
I believe that this text & its review is a money-maker item, published for the sole purpose of gaining profits. It seems as if the author mainly copied and pasted old data to accomplish his goal of completing a book for monetary purposes. The valuable information provided could have been handled in the form of a 2-3 page article, providing that the author and company, did not intend to profit form this book. Any monies earned from this book should be used to stimulate the economy and/or as a donation to the students paying for it. I am not saying that Mr. Fullan is completely responsible or that some of his information is not credible, but why not use it as a paper-back to the Educatinal Leadership (2nd Ed.) book provided for schools.
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3: A guide for change
Michael Fullan, the dean of the Ontario Institute of Studies in education, in this work addresses the common challenges facing business, nonprofit, and educational sectors. He presents an approach for varied settings to leaders to help them navigate the change process. Fullan integrates these five core competencies...
1- attending to a broader moral purpose,
2- keeping on top of the change process,
3- cultivating relationships
4- Sharing knowledge
5- Setting a vision and context for creating coherence
These 5 competencies are intended to empower leaders to deal with factors that are difficult and ever changing. These disciplines were well explained and were accompanied with real life illustrations from schools and businesses to validate and clarify each component. My absolute favorite part of the book came in the end of the book. Fullan explains, through Fontaine's The Tortoise and the Hare fable, how learning to be a great leader is much more like the tortoise than the hare. These disciplines are slower (long haul) lessons. The three identified were slow learning, learning in context, and comprehensive internal commitment from leadership. These are tortoise lessons because the better leaders will take time to assess/reassess current status, listen to input, win over resistant members, and learning what is the right thing for each work setting. The author even goes as far as to suggest a ten year " rule of thumb" to really build relationships, strive for coherence, cultivate one' own moral purpose. It is apparent that this process challenges one's own personal practices as well as those of the organization. Sometimes educational institutions can "jump on the band" wagon with new approaches instead of staying the course for what will bring sustained change and improvement for all levels of the organization.
Melba Hooker
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4: Helpful
Leading in a culture of Change was very helpful. It showed a great comparison between leadership in the business world and leadership in the world of education. There were many ideas to ponder and consider implementing.
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5: Great Read
Fullan's book is a good, straight to the point read. It is a very insightful, easy to follow guide on leadeship.
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