Offers 'hands on' tools to help school leaders think through and implement a 'culture building' process. Featuring 50 field-tested exercises and activities, this book includes material on 'toxic' environments with specific action steps for identifying and transforming a dysfunctional school culture. It is suitable for educational leaders.

Explaining how the values and beliefs of educators have a critical impact on school functioning, this edition also shows how leaders play important symbolic roles in schools and how culture-based strategies can help educators manage everyday challenges and even serve to heal and transform 'toxic' school environments.

Social networks reflect the usually invisible relationships that control the power and flow of information within a school. This resource for school leaders examines types of networks-related to tasks, friendships, power, and culture - and provides tools for maximizing networks' positive schoolwide influence.

This is an updated edition of the best-selling book that first announced the importance of spirit in the workplace. Since its original publication in 1995, Leading with Soul has inspired thousands of readers with its simple message - the heart of leadership lies within the hearts of leaders .

This is a contemporary parable chronicling the journey of a beleaguered executive's quest for passion and purpose in work and in life. It teaches that the heart of true leadership can only be found in the heart of a leader.

Presents a four-frame model that examines organizations as factories, families, jungles, and theaters or temples: the Structural Frame; the Human Resource Frame; the Political Frame; and, the Symbolic Frame. This title features case examples such as Hurricane Katrina and profiles of great leaders such as Mother Theresa, Thomas Keller, and others.

For junior and senior managers alike, Deal and Kennedy offer guidelines for diagnosing the state of one's own corporate culture and for using the power of culture to wield significant influence on how business gets done.

This is a contemporary parable chronicling the journey of a beleaguered executive's quest for passion and purpose in work and in life. It teaches that the heart of true leadership can only be found in the heart of a leader.

Includes case examples such as Hurricane Katrina and profiles of great leaders such as Mother Theresa, Thomas Keller, and others. This book updates the 'Organizational Theory's Greatest Hits' text boxes throughout, and increases geographic, cultural and gender diversity in examples and text.

This text shows how principals and other school leaders can successfully integrate both the technical and symbolic aspects of their work with confidence and enthusiasm, skill and insight. It should help educators identify their strengths and weaknesses.

Focuses on how teachers can influence, inspire, and touch the lives of learners. This book explores the central themes of teaching practice and offers perspectives on teaching as an art that promotes creativity, character, and imagination in students; and, balancing testing and accountability with the art and passion of teaching.

Just as culture is critical to understanding the dynamics behind any thriving community, organization, or business, the daily realities and deep structure of school life hold the key to educational success. Reforms that strive for educational excellence are likely to fail unless they are meaningfully linked to the school's unique culture.

Focuses on how teachers can influence, inspire, and touch the lives of learners. This book explores the central themes of teaching practice and offers perspectives on teaching as an art that promotes creativity, character, and imagination in students; and, balancing testing and accountability with the art and passion of teaching.