
Leadership and Futuring
Making Visions Happen
John R. Hoyle(Author)
Corwin Press Inc
2nd Edition
Published on 17. August 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-1-4129-3848-8 (ISBN)
Description
Become an extraordinary visionary leader with the knowledge and skills to make great things happen!
Well-educated, charismatic leaders who can improve systems to enrich the lives of others are needed today more than ever. In this updated edition, John Hoyle identifies vision, motivation, flexibility, and openness to invention and opportunity as key characteristics of effective leaders, and challenges school administrators to think outside the box-to explore the vital links between effective leadership and visioning for the future.
Illustrating new and vivid team-building exercises, this excellent resource guides educators striving to lead, inspire, and motivate students and team members toward positive personal visions and a successful life and career. The book also:
Explains the relationship between leadership and futuring
Describes seven visionary leaders
Links motivation research to contemporary organizations
Offers inspirational stories about successful visionaries
Provides step-by-step futuring techniques for workshops
Suggests how leaders create, communicate, and put forth a service vision
Leadership and Futuring is about dynamic change based on visionary leadership not just for today but for the future-in education, business, government, and any field.
Well-educated, charismatic leaders who can improve systems to enrich the lives of others are needed today more than ever. In this updated edition, John Hoyle identifies vision, motivation, flexibility, and openness to invention and opportunity as key characteristics of effective leaders, and challenges school administrators to think outside the box-to explore the vital links between effective leadership and visioning for the future.
Illustrating new and vivid team-building exercises, this excellent resource guides educators striving to lead, inspire, and motivate students and team members toward positive personal visions and a successful life and career. The book also:
Explains the relationship between leadership and futuring
Describes seven visionary leaders
Links motivation research to contemporary organizations
Offers inspirational stories about successful visionaries
Provides step-by-step futuring techniques for workshops
Suggests how leaders create, communicate, and put forth a service vision
Leadership and Futuring is about dynamic change based on visionary leadership not just for today but for the future-in education, business, government, and any field.
Reviews / Votes
"A book about broadening skills to create new and exciting learning organizations that take people to places they have never been." -- Future Survey, December 2006 "Hoyle does an excellent job showing best practices through stories and experience." -- NACADA Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Publishing group
SAGE Publications Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
209 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4129-3848-8 (9781412938488)
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08/1995
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Person
John R. Hoyle, a professor of educational administration at Texas A&M University, is an authority on the superintendency, leadership research, and future studies. He served as president of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration and was the first recipient of the NCPEA "Living Legend Award." In a 2004 survey, Hoyle's peers selected him as one of the four most "exceptional living scholars" in educational administration. Hoyle served as chair of the AASA National Commission on Professional Standards for the Superintendency and authored the document Professional Standards for the Superintendency. He has written numerous books, book chapters, articles, and papers and is a popular consultant, seminar leader, and motivational speaker.
Content
Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
1 What's Leadership Got to Do With Futuring?
2 Visionary Leaders I Have Known and Others I Wish I Had Known
3 Motivating Others to Engage in Futuring
4 Making Visions Happen
5 Staff Development Techniques to Envision and Create Real-World Programs
6 The Visionary Leader You Can Become
Bibliography and References
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
1 What's Leadership Got to Do With Futuring?
2 Visionary Leaders I Have Known and Others I Wish I Had Known
3 Motivating Others to Engage in Futuring
4 Making Visions Happen
5 Staff Development Techniques to Envision and Create Real-World Programs
6 The Visionary Leader You Can Become
Bibliography and References
Index