Your chosen journey: Building a better leadership carrer on purpose
Is this what you want?
Are you leadership material?
What's a career? What's not?
Who's in control?
What should you expect?
What's the plan?
The seven critical choices that shape your leadership
Choosing core values
Leading with attitude
Defining stretch goals
Getting priorities straight
Finding role models
Associates by choice
Picking when It's confusing
Overcoming self-imposed limits, career blockers, and false ceilings
False ceilings
False ceilings and self-made limitations
Other self-sabotaging behaviors
Natural Laws of Lifelong school leadership
Natural laws you can use
Natural laws of career desing
Natural laws of school leadership
Ignorance Is no excuse
Navigation tips for lifelong journey in school leadership
The journey begins in your mind
Seeking, starting, stopping, and switching, job as a school leader (or growing where you're planted)
Becoming indispensable, promotable, and transferable
The most important skill of all for today's (and tomorrow's) school leaders
How to step up, stand out, and stand apart as a school leader staying the course and staying motivated
Finding your soul as a school leader
Success ''secrets'' for career school leaders
The power of thinking big
Leading others: Building relationships to get results leading yourself: Managing the most difficult person of all
Stepping stones and stumbling blocks to effective school leadership
Common stepping stones and stumbling blocks for school leaders
The most Influential career stepping stones and stumbling blocks
The boss factot
The job itself as a stumbling block
The resilient school leader: Overcoming stumbling blocks and turning obstacles into apportunities
Making tough calls and hard choices
Deciding to decide
Career-changing choices
A how-to-decide guide
A permanent state of transition
Evolution of a lifelong career and leaving a lasting legacy
Developmental phases of successful school leadership
Every phase adds value to the legacy
Definition of legacy
Planting seeds for lasting impact
How to design a legacy to be proud of
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Lifelong leadership by design : how to do more good for kids and feel better about your life's work by Robert D. Ramsey. ISBN 9781412969062. Published by Corwin in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
