Fullan, Michael

Michael Fullan outlines six core practices of leadership--earn trust, fine-tune focus, develop others, know your impact, embrace complexity,and hope no matter what--which differentiate a powerful leader from one who is merely competent; and argues that powerful leaders have built bedrocks of credibility, learned how to identify the few things that matter most, and know how to leverage their skills in ways that benefit their entire organization.

"Complex times call for streamlined solutions--and leaders to pull them together. If initiative overload and fragmentation are keeping your best plans from becoming reality, it's time to lead with coherence"--Back cover.

" ... hands-on guide to the ... book, 'Coherence: The Right Drivers in Action for Schools, Districts and Systems, ' providing step-by-step protocols to help foster deep coherence for maximum student learning all within a reasonably short time frame"--Amazon.

Offers a comprehensive overview of educational change and how it has evolved throughout the twentieth century, with practical suggestions for how it can be improved in terms of teachers, students, principals, families, and communities at the local, regional, and national levels.

Offers a comprehensive overview of what leaders at all levels of the education system can do to contribute to large-scale, sustainable reform.