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The Succession Challenge

Building and Sustaining Leadership Capacity Through Succession Management

By: Dean Fink

Foreword by Andy Hargreaves

Learn about the root causes of the leadership shortage in education and how you can ensure smooth transitions!

Throughout the world there is a perceived shortage of educational leaders. This book looks at the roots of the "succession challenge" internationally and through the eyes of present and potential leaders to suggest how enlightened approaches to succession management can ensure a steady supply of high-quality educational leaders. The author focuses on specific areas such as:

Basic issues of leadership succession
Demographic and generational roots of the succession crisis
Patterns of succession management and their implications
Successful succession practices from around the world

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781848606968
Published By: Sage UK
Year: 2010
Page Count: 208
Publication date: February 09, 2015

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Learn about the root causes of the leadership shortage in education and how you can ensure smooth transitions!

Throughout the world there is a perceived shortage of educational leaders. Most investigations look at the issue as a problem of mathematical misalignment. This book looks at the roots of the "succession challenge" internationally and more specifically through the eyes of present and potential leaders to suggest how enlightened approaches to succession management can ensure a steady supply of high-quality educational leaders. The author focuses on specific areas such as:

Basic issues of leadership succession
Demographic and generational roots of the succession crisis
Patterns of succession management and their implications
Successful succession practices from around the world

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Dean Fink

Table of Contents

Foreword

Warm Bodies or Leaders of Learning

The Succession Challenge: Supply and Demands

The Succession Challenge in Time and Space

The Succession Challenge up Close

The Succession Challenge up Really Close

Pipelines, Pools and Reservoirs

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Succeeding Leaders

Reviews

'Business organizations have long understood the value of succession planning to ensure leadership development and capacity building. Dean Fink's concept that school districts should build a 'reservoir' of prepared and available leaders by creating optional paths for teacher leaders is a critical consideration for all school districts as we experience the ever-narrowing administrator pipeline' -
Donna Wright, Assistant Superintendent
Knox County Schools

'Dean Fink has managed, in this book, to take the complexities of succession planning and make them both visible and accessible. He takes us far beyond the numbers into the real issues of life style, accountability demands, overload and distractions from instructional leadership and situates these issues, not in the present, but in the future that is looming. His vivid examples of ways in which succession planning happens (or doesn't happen) and of trajectories of changes in leadership in genuine contexts fraught with political and relational issues, take the reader deep into the fabric of schools and districts as they anticipate and negotiate the real world of educational change in a landscape where local leadership must constantly be renewed' -
Lorna Earl, Director
Aporia Consulting Ltd

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