Book description
An organizational approach to more effective school leadership, online and off
“Leadership, especially in a school setting, is too important to be merely intuitive. In this generous book, Steve and Reshan outline a new way of thinking for a new kind of leader. Recommended.”
Seth Godin, author of What to Do When it’s Your Turn (and it’s Always Your Turn)
"If you're a school leader, Blending Leadership is the book you need to guide your thinking in today's increasingly networked educational environment. Your students and staff may have varying degrees of comfort with technology, but this book will give you solid guidance on how to lead them both online and offline and chart a path to the future.”
Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive
Blending Leadership provides all school leaders with a unique approach to utilizing technology for more effective learning and leadership. As the online aspects of schools become just as important as their brick-and-mortar counterparts, leaders must be as effective screen-to-screen as they are face-to-face. Drawing from research, experience, and real-world examples, this book explores and unpacks six core beliefs necessary for the blended leader to succeed.
Between email, websites, apps, updates, tweets, attachments, infographics, YouTube, and unceasing notifications, most people are inundated with digital detritus, and they either grow to ignore it or get swept under it. Effective blended leaders see these distractions as spurs to action, models, test cases, remixable commodities, and learning opportunities. Blending Leadership gives you the perspective you need to excel and the knowledge to leverage the tools at your disposal.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise for Blending Leadership
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors & the Artist
- Introduction
- Belief #1: Blended Leaders Engage with Thought Leaders and Engage as Thought Leaders
- Belief #2: Blended Leaders Design Spaces and Care for Spaces
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Belief #3: Blended Leaders Reject Insularity and Embrace Sharing
- Riding With Tom Nammack
- The Business Case for Humility or Q + BA = (I)2
- Asking Old Questions to New People
- Building Small Public Work Groups
- Building, and Contributing to, Large Public Work Groups
- Public Troubleshooting
- Troublefinding and Troubleshooting
- Bug Bounty
- Learn to Share, Mix to Distribute
- Sharing and Not Sharing
- Blended Leading With Digests
- Blended Leading with Templates
- Saving Our Assets
- Mindful Organizing, Mindful Organizations
- Belief #4: Blended Leaders Challenge Meeting Structures and Change Meeting Structures
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Belief #5: Blended Leaders Articulate a Mission and Advance a Mission
- If a Mission Falls in yhe Woods
- Between Two FERNS and WTF
- Dad's Old Radio—for the Masses
- Dr. Gray Smith Reaches for the Pneumatic Nail Gun
- Bill Stites's Social Numbers
- Binge Watching with Jennie Magiera
- Microstorytelling: Working More Versus Working Different
- Measuring Faith to Have Faith
- Cautionary Tale #1: If you Don’t Do IT, Someone Else Might
- Cautionary Tale #2: Playing the Long Game
- Belief #6: Blended Leaders Keep the Off-ramp Open and Use It Frequently
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: Blending Leadership
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2016
- Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
- ISBN: 9781119222057
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