Blundering Leadership

Missteps by School Administrators

Tamara Arnott, Gayla Holmgren-Hoeller

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN: 9781607094241
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Professional Development

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.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figure
• Preface
• Note to Readers
• 1 Introduction
• 2 “I Am the Boss and You Are Not”
• 3 “Do as I Say, Not as I Do”
• 4 Take All the Credit and None of the Blame
• 5 Keep the Information Treasure Hidden
• 6 Hiding behind Closed Doors
• 7 “Sure, I'll Pretend to Listen”
• 8 “My Lack of Planning Is, in Fact, Your Emergency”
• 9 “Don't Diss Me”
• 10 Reconnecting and Rebuilding the Bridges Burnt
• Appendix A: Historical Overview of Leadership
• Appendix B: Leadership Tips
• Appendix C: National Standards for Headteachers
• Bibliography
• About the Authors