How Can You Become the Boss?

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How Can You Become the Boss? From Personal Mastery to Organizational Transformation is a must read for all administrators, business professionals, and students of leadership. The authors provide a strict reassurance that as leaders continue to evolve, the tenets surrounding transformational leadership remain true to the importance of putting theory into practice and enhancing investment in the mission of the organization for all stakeholders. The book further portrays the "future" of leadership being transformed to a participant-based system where the success of the leader is directly related to the advancements made by the members of the organization as a whole. -- Richard D. Tomko, PhD, Superintendent of Schools, Belleville Public Schools, New Jersey This book, How Can You Become the Boss? From Personal Mastery to Organizational Transformation is an opportunity for aspiring, new, and experienced leaders to gain perspective on how best to lead an organization from the inside out. Beginning with the centric view of self as integral to the organic nature of the organization, the text expands its focus to envelope the essential elements for exemplary leadership. Addressing the role of the reflective leader as transactional, transformational, deliberative, and perpetuating, this text is a must-read for today's leaders of schools and other organizations. -- Michael E. Pizzingrillo, Vice President for New York City Operations, Catapult Learning, LLC, New York, NY How Can You Become the Boss? From Personal Mastery to Organizational Transformation is a much needed resource for those just learning to be leaders and leaders who wish to further develop their skills. The ideal of leading self to lead others, the relationships we form while doing so, and the role a leader plays in each are clearly addressed with both a theoretical framework and practical references. If transforming an organization is about learning and growing, then this text is a must read for all leaders who are ready to explore their personal best. -- Ann-Marie Sabrsula, Developmental Psychology Consultant/ABA Program Supervisor, The Children's School for Early Development, Westchester County, NY Leadership in life and education is essential; and so is this book - How Can You Become the Boss? From Personal Mastery to Organizational Transformation- as it explains how leadership works. Sr. Mary Ann Jacobs and Sr. Remigia Kushner have found human, religious and special views, and suggestions for leadership, and express them with sensitivity, force and courage in this book; thus good leaders are catalyst -- and we learn how to be a successful leader through this book. -- Bruce S. Cooper, PhD, emeritus professor and vice chair, Division of Administration, Policy and Urban Education, Fordham University