tailieunhanh - How to Improve Student Achievement_4

Tham khảo tài liệu 'how to improve student achievement_4', khoa học xã hội, kinh tế chính trị phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Chapter Seven Strategic Leadership in Action Leadership Keys The daily practice of strategic leadership The federal perspective standards assessment and accountability The state perspective freedom at a price The district perspective redefining educational accountability Authors must regularly confront the truth of the maxim that it is easier to give advice than to take it. It is also easier to define terms than to operationalize them. In this chapter I must accept both challenges offering an operational definition of what strategic leadership means in practice and also presenting examples of where I have implemented strategic leadership. Thucydides the historian of the Peloponnesian Wars warned us of the inherent bias in the historical accounts of those who win the battle. What I offer here is no victor s history rather I share warts and all examples of where the definition of strategic leadership has been used well and where it has foundered. I have always distrusted those autobiographical accounts that appear to claim If you can only be like me then everything will be swell A more accurate guide for this chapter is If you will learn from my mistakes as well as the mistakes and success I have observed in almost thirty years of leadership study everything will not necessarily be swell but you will approach each challenge with greater insight and more confidence. 115 116 The Daily Disciplines of Leadership There is a risk in this confessional approach. By revealing my own mistakes some readers will conclude that this book is an exercise of the genre best described as Do as I say not as I do. An alternative conclusion is that we are all in the process of improving our leadership. Only through rigorous comparison of the difference between where we are to where we want to be can we improve our leadership abilities and the organizations for which we are responsible. Confession of error is the price of improvement and this transparency is the example we owe to all of .