The Succession Challenge: Building and Sustaining Leadership Capacity Through Succession Management - Softcover

Fink, Dean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848606966 ISBN 13: 9781848606968

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

This book looks at the roots of the "succession challenge" internationally and how enlightened approaches to succession management can ensure a steady supply of high-quality educational leaders.

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Review:

′Business organizations have long understood the value of succession planning to ensure leadership development and capacity building. Dean Fink′s concept that school districts should build a ′reservoir′ of prepared and available leaders by creating optional paths for teacher leaders is a critical consideration for all school districts as we experience the ever-narrowing administrator pipeline′ -
Donna Wright, Assistant Superintendent
Knox County Schools

′Dean Fink has managed, in this book, to take the complexities of succession planning and make them both visible and accessible. He takes us far beyond the numbers into the real issues of life style, accountability demands, overload and distractions from instructional leadership and situates these issues, not in the present, but in the future that is looming. His vivid examples of ways in which succession planning happens (or doesn′t happen) and of trajectories of changes in leadership in genuine contexts fraught with political and relational issues, take the reader deep into the fabric of schools and districts as they anticipate and negotiate the real world of educational change in a landscape where local leadership must constantly be renewed′ -
Lorna Earl, Director
Aporia Consulting Ltd

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1848606966
• ISBN 13: 9781848606968
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208