Principles of Power
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Women who seek to be school superintendents or who want to improve their chances for success in the superintendency can clearly benefit from the insights and cultural wisdom of women who have attained the position. Principles of Power shares perspectives from twelve successful women superintendents and puts them in a cultural context that highlights what they can teach us about their methods for success.
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C. Cryss Brunner is Assistant Professor of Educational Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the editor of Sacred Dreams: Women and the Superintendency, also published by SUNY Press.
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C. Cryss Brunner is Assistant Professor of Educational Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the editor of Sacred Dreams: Women and the Superintendency, also published by SUNY Press.
Content
Foreword
Charol Shakeshaft
Acknowledgments
Part One
Mystery: Intangible Insights
Chapter 1
Mystery and Metaphor: Introduction to Part 1
Raymond M. Olderman
Chapter 2
Gathering Intangible Data: The Women Superintendents and the Assembly
Chapter 3
Embodying Intangible Data: The Women As Warriors
Part Two
Metaphor: Articulating Intangibles
Chapter 4
The Warrior's Path: The Riddle of the Heart and the Seven Principles of Power
Chapter 5
Principle One: Knowing the Battleground
Chapter 6
Principle Two: Discarding the Unnecessary
Chapter 7
Principle Three: Choosing Battles
Chapter 8
Principle Four: Taking Risks
Chapter 9
Principle Five: Seeking Retreat
Chapter 10
Principle Six: Compressing Time
Chapter 11
Principle Seven: Exercising Power
Part Three
Motion: Intangibles in Action
Chapter 12
Impeccable Practice: Three Results
Chapter 13
First Result: Laughing at Self
Chapter 14
Second Result: Patience without Fretting
Chapter 15
Third Result: Improvisation
Chapter 16
Castaneda and Me
About the Author
Notes
References
Index
