Description
Book SynopsisTotal Leaders 2.0 is the twenty-first-century's quick guide to leadership and successful change. It places the best thinking of several dozen, cutting-edge leadership and change gurus of the past two decades into an integrated, compelling, easily understood, and practical leadership framework: the Total Leader 2.0 Model. The model's five domains and fifteen performance roles enable leaders in any field of endeavor to systematically address the challenges of organizational change in today's technologically-driven, dramatically changing world-what the book's first two chapters vividly describe as the Age of Empowerment. This new edition of the widely read Total Leaders book: 1) significantly deepens the theoretical grounding and applicability of the original Total Leader Model, and 2) expands its connection to other significant dimensions of leadership, professionalism, personal empowerment, learning, life, and change. This book provides education leaders with a powerful "outside the box" perspective on today's pressing educational issues and a systematic process-called strategic design-for moving their organizations from an Industrial Age grounding to an Age of Empowerment way of educating for the twenty-first century.
Trade ReviewTotal Leaders 2.0 and Learning Communities 2.0 present practical solutions that will help both new and experienced educational leaders to transform their school systems. -- Dan Domenech, Executive director, American Association of School Administrators
The authors have written the best book on educational leadership that I have read. This will be required reading for all of our doctoral students. What impresses me most is the "big picture" approach that they present in the book. It puts educational leadership in context for what is happening in the world. -- Ralph Jasparra, professor, School of Education, Johnson & Wales University; president, Education Designs; senior consultant, Teachers21
A must-read for both aspiring and successful, experienced school leaders. -- Bill Adams, New Jersey superintendent emeritus; educational and executive search consultant
AASA veterans will, no doubt, remember Chuck Schwahn and Bill Spady from the outcome-based education wars of the mid-1990's. Total Leaders 2.0: Leading in the Age of Empowerment is a 10-years-after-NCLB update of their Total Leaders book of 1998….The details are in the work of daily leadership, and the authors lay out the model's five domains and 15 performance roles. While there is not a lot here that an experienced superintendent has not heard before, bringing these ideas together into one framework is helpful, both in implementing key actions in a district and in conceptualizing them in leadership development classes. * School Administrator *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Welcome to Empowermentland! Chapter 2 Living on the Edge in Empowermentland Chapter 3 Leadership, Change, and Character: Joined at the Hip Chapter 4 Total Leaders: Then and Now Chapter 5 Gearing Up for Your 2.0 Strategic Design Chapter 6 Setting Your 2.0 Strategic Direction Chapter 7 Implementing Your 2.0 Strategic Alignment Chapter 8 Epilogue
