Introduction
Part I: Leadership Development
Chapter 1: Lead, Follow, or Get out of the Way
Chapter 2: Secrets of Leadership
Chapter 3: Growing Into Leadership
Part II: Leading Self
Chapter 4: The Secret of Getting Ahead Is Getting Started
Chapter 5: If You Always Succeed, You Are Overqualified
Chapter 6: All Change Begins With a Change of Mind
Reflection- Part II
Part III: Leading Others to Lead Themselves
Chapter 7: Find a Parade and Get in Front of It
Chapter 8: Fusing Power and People
Chapter 9: From Dependence to Independence to Interdependence
Reflection – Part III
Part IV: Leading/ Transforming the Organization
Chapter 10: All of Us Is Smarter Than One of Us
Chapter 11: If You Want to Be Smart, Hire Up
Chapter 12: A Platform for Spreading Ideas That Work
Reflection – Part IV
Part V: The Future of Leadership
Chapter 13: Leadership as Action, Not Position
Chapter 14: Whatever You Are, Be a Good One
Chapter 15: Participantship: The Future of Leadership _Toc448575277
Dr. Mary Ann Jacobs has been an educator at every level – from
teaching kindergarten to teaching post-graduate courses in
leadership, assessment, curriculum, technology, instructional
design and delivery.
She has been a leader in classrooms, of schools, at the district
level, as a consultant to educational leaders, as a primary
investigator of an NSF STEM grant to join engineering and
education.
Dr. Remigia Kushner is a Professor of Education and Director of
Educational Leadership in the Graduate Education Program at
Manhattan College. She has been an elementary and secondary school
teacher of math and science, a secondary principal, a district and
associate superintendent with responsibility for the recruitment,
retention, and development of school leaders.
Her research interests include professional development, continuous
improvement of teaching and learning, and reflective leadership
practice.
How Can You Become the Boss? From Personal Mastery to
Organizational Transformation is a must read for all
administrators, business professionals, and students of
leadership. The authors provide a strict reassurance that as
leaders continue to evolve, the tenets surrounding transformational
leadership remain true to the importance of putting theory into
practice and enhancing investment in the mission of the
organization for all stakeholders. The book further portrays
the "future" of leadership being transformed to a participant-based
system where the success of the leader is directly related to the
advancements made by the members of the organization as a
whole.
*Richard D. Tomko Ph.D, M.J., Superintendent of Schools, Belleville
Public Schools, Belleville, NJ*
This book, How Can You Become the Boss? From Personal Mastery to
Organizational Transformation is an opportunity for aspiring, new,
and experienced leaders to gain perspective on how best to lead an
organization from the inside out. Beginning with the centric view
of self as integral to the organic nature of the organization, the
text expands its focus to envelope the essential elements for
exemplary leadership. Addressing the role of the reflective leader
as transactional, transformational, deliberative, and perpetuating,
this text is a must-read for today’s leaders of schools and other
organizations.
*Michael E. Pizzingrillo, Vice President for New York City
Operations, Catapult Learning, LLC, New York, NY*
How Can You Become the Boss? From Personal Mastery to
Organizational Transformation is a much needed resource for those
just learning to be leaders and leaders who wish to further develop
their skills. The ideal of leading self to lead others, the
relationships we form while doing so, and the role a leader plays
in each are clearly addressed with both a theoretical framework and
practical references. If transforming an organization is about
learning and growing, then this text is a must read for all leaders
who are ready to explore their personal best.
*Ann-Marie Sabrsula, Developmental Psychology Consultant/ABA
Program Supervisor, The Children’s School for Early Development,
Westchester County, NY*
Leadership in life and education is essential; and so is this book
- How Can You Become the Boss? From Personal Mastery to
Organizational Transformation- as it explains how leadership
works. Sr. Mary Ann Jacobs and Sr. Remigia Kushner have found
human, religious and special views, and suggestions for leadership,
and express them with sensitivity, force and courage in this book;
thus good leaders are catalyst -- and we learn how to be a
successful leader through this book.
*Bruce S. Cooper, professor and vice chair, Division of
Administration, Policy and Urban Education (APUE), at the Fordham
University Graduate Scho, Ph.D., professor and vice chair, Division
of Administration, Policy and Urban Education (APUE), at the
Fordham University Graduate School of Education,…*
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