Leadership Philosophy

Built to Deliver distills 30 years of hands-on school system transformation into an eight-step execution framework. Whether you're leading a public school district, charter or private school network, community college, university, or education nonprofit, this framework helps turn bold strategy into measurable, daily action—so plans aren’t just made, they’re fulfilled. Most plans don’t fail from lack of effort. They fail in the gap between vision and execution. Built to Deliver helps close that gap.

This book was borne out of urgency. We face the consequences of a raging pandemic, coupled with an unprecedented call to end racial injustice. COVID-19 has exposed longstanding structural inequities, while at the same time offering a rare “breakthrough” opportunity to dismantle inequitable systems that have harmed our most marginalized students for generations. Breakthrough Leadership is rooted in moral courage and calls us to act upon a new discovery, or epiphany about a fundamental truth that challenges previous beliefs.

Discover the six ingredients to becoming a supreme leader, even if you are just starting out.

This is the thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the best-selling book Exploring Leadership. The book is designed to help college students understand that they are capable of being effective leaders and to guide them in developing their leadership potential. Exploring Leadership incorporates new insights and material developed in the course of the authors work in the field.

A trajetória de um gestor que esteve no leme de importantes instituições em períodos de grande turbulência da vida nacional. Nesta obra, Roberto Lobo descreve todo o percurso que trilhou para construir sua vitoriosa carreira. Ao lado de Maria Beatriz Lobo, sua esposa e companheira de trabalho, oferece ao leitor uma preciosa contribuição para os debates sobre a gestão universitária, a ciência e a tecnologia, provando-se uma inspiração para futuros líderes institucionais.

In Kids Deserve It!, Todd and Adam encourage you to think big and make learning fun and meaningful for students. While you're at it, you just might rediscover why you became an educator in the first place.

This inspiring 2018 IPPY gold medal award-winning book presents the idea of your heartprint: The distinct impression an educator's heart makes on students and colleagues during his or her career. For teachers, understand how teacher motivation, teacher-student relationships, and collaborative teaching all affect your career and professional development. For school leaders, discover your impact on staff, students, and culture as you progress in your career.

Statues and Storms offers a gripping insider’s account of Max Price’s tenure as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town during a transformative period in South African higher education. In the wake of the Rhodes Must Fall protests, universities across the country were engulfed in sustained and often violent demonstrations, challenging institutional cultures and sparking a global movement. This book provides a unique perspective on the protests, delving into the reasons behind the decolonizing movement’s emergence at liberal universities two decades after the democratic transition.

What Goes Unspoken is a must-have guide for any school or educational systems leader looking to comprehend and put into play an effective, equity-centered plan that champions students, teachers, and staff. Moving beyond the abundant resources that focus on DEI theories, Krystal Hardy Allen shows leaders and administrators how to concretely center DEI within both practices and policies, as well as how to do the interpersonal work of becoming a self-aware and equity-focused leader

Die Inschrift auf dem Orakel von Delphi lautet: »Nichts im Übermaß«. Das ist leicht gesagt, aber schwer zu praktizieren – und wenn es schon 300 v. Chr. schwer war, so ist es heute fast unmöglich. Und doch ist die Selbstdisziplin die stärkste und wichtigste Tugend, die jeder von uns lernen kann. Ohne sie können wir unsere Lebensziele nicht erreichen. Ryan Holiday beschreibt im 2. Band der Reihe über die vier stoischen Tugenden, wie wir Willenskraft, Mäßigung und Selbstkontrolle – also Disziplin – in unserem Leben kultivieren können.

This book draws from the successes of award-winning schools, teachers, students, and parents to help leaders understand how they can positively change the educational experience of Black students. When Black Students Excel offers real-life examples of outstanding elementary, middle, and high schools where teachers and school leaders have rejected policies and practices built upon deficit perceptions about the capacity of Black students.

A Arte da Guerra é a bíblia dos estrategistas. Sai do universo militar para conquistar o mundo político e empresarial. Há mais de 2.500 anos, o general chinês Sun Tzu compilou os personagens filosóficos que sintetizam estratégias eficientes. Mistério, dissimulação, astúcia e surpresa são os pilares deste tratado. Um livro profundo, repleto de metáforas, que encanta e intriga os estudiosos no mundo todo.

Born 1898 in the Northern-Italian city of Modena, Enzo Ferrari lived his dream and founded the world’s most famous sports car manufacturer. This book analyzes how he achieved his goals by what are considered to be modern concepts. Or were leadership theories, emotional intelligence, business ethics, client orientation, and sustainability already guiding principles of business in the beginning of the last century.

In business and in life, handing over the reins to others is inevitable. Everyone will eventually leave their team, retire from being the CEO, or see their kids leave home and lead their own lives. Leading from the Jumpseat enables us to embrace this inevitability. Leading from the Jumpseat is a metaphor for how we can choose to lead.

Niccolò Machiavelli gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Staatsphilosophen der Neuzeit. Der italienische Dichter und Diplomat wurde vor allem für sein Werk "Il Principe (Der Fürst)" weltbekannt und prägte mit seinen Analysen zum Thema Macht neue Herrschaftsvorstellungen. Werner Schwanfelder transportiert die Kerngedanken Machiavellis in die heutige Zeit und zeigt ebenso kurzweilig wie auch vergnüglich die Parallelen zu den Alltagsthemen einer modernen Führungskraft. Unterhaltsam und spannend zieht er Gewinn aus Machiavellis Thesen.

At the best of times, leadership is messy. It's about a way of being, not doing. It's nebulous, nuanced, and elusive, as much to do with feeling and energy as thinking and planning. It's contextual and responsive and can never be one size fits all. When great leaders are in balance, they are both ferocious about the moral purpose and courageously making a stand, while warmly building strong and enduring relationships.

Our students’ futures depend upon it: If we’re to guarantee equitable access and improved academic outcomes for our historically underserved students, then we must first confront the deeply rooted biases and practices that for far too long have limited them. That’s where Cultural Proficiency: A Manual for School Leaders has already benefited tens of thousands of schools leaders—and the students, teachers, and communities they serve. Cultural Proficiency helps us all establish a mindset and worldview for effectively describing and responding to inequities.

Far too often, teachers and administrators are adversaries within a school or district and display a mutual distrust and disrespect for each other's perspectives. Yet when this dissonance can be overcome, the result is a more harmonious school environment that promotes student achievement. In Lead Like a Teacher, instructional specialist Miriam Plotinsky urges secondary school administrators to lead more effectively by actively listening to teachers and welcoming their expertise.

Blended learning has the power to reinvent education, but the transition requires a new approach to learning and a new skillset for educators. Loaded with research and examples, Blended Learning in Action demonstrates the advantages a blended model has over traditional instruction when technology is used to engage students both inside the classroom and online.

Every child deserves the opportunity to have a legendary team supporting them through their educational journey and–guess what–you’ve been drafted to that team! If you are a teacher, administrator, school or community support staff, psychologist or parent just getting started or already at the top of your game, education is at the forefront of your day, year, life and career.