The Politically Intelligent Leader: Dealing with the Dilemmas of a High-Stakes Educational Environment

About this book

Todays educational leaders are often caught in a world of rising expectations and diminishing resourcesthe political pressures are enormous. Those in the business of education often feel ill prepared and apprehensive about their ability to deal with a high-stakes political environment. The Politically Intelligent Leader helps leaders at all levels learn more about themselves and their own political styles. It provides strategies for delivering a personal educational vision diagnosing others styles and customizing strategies to influence those who can help or hinder ones organizational goals as well as providing groundwork for leaders to understand how to operate ethically with all groupselected boards citizen groups unions and volunteersduring politically volatile times.