Blundering Leadership

Missteps by School Administrators

By (author) Tamara Arnott, Gayla Holmgren-Hoeller

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Publication date:

16 March 2010

Length of book:

222 pages

Publisher

R&L Education

ISBN-13: 9781607094227

Often new leaders commit a series of missteps that create dissention and dissatisfaction, ultimately alienating staff. This book is designed to steer future leaders and newly promoted leaders away from these missteps. The authors share ideas to aid new leaders in making fewer mistakes that alienate constituents and subordinates and increase the likelihood of failure. With severe financial problems and increasing diverse cultures and values, today's leaders face greater challenges and need to hit the ground running. This book presents real-life leadership scenarios that resulted in negative outcomes; discusses missteps to avoid; reviews current leadership literature relevant to the scenarios; and provides leadership tips, tools, and self-development exercises.
My first year as a high school principal brought many challenges to which I had never been exposed. By trial and error I made it through, just barely. I could have saved myself many grey hairs and sleepless nights had I read Blundering Leadership: Missteps by School Administrators before my first school administrative job. Blundering Leadership should be a prerequisite for every Education Leadership License.