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Leadership and Futuring

Making Visions Happen
Second Edition
By: John R. Hoyle

Foreword by Edward Cornish, Founder and Former President, The World Future Society

Become an extraordinary visionary leader with the knowledge and skills to make great things happen!

Hoyle's updated book serves as a guide for visionary leaders striving to lead, inspire, and motivate students and team members toward positive personal visions, successful lives, and fulfilling careers. Characteristics of an effective leader are highlighted, along with:

  • An explanation of the relationship between leadership and futuring
  • A description of seven visionary leaders
  • The link between motivation research and contemporary organizations
  • Inspirational stories of visionary leadership
  • Step-by-step futuring techniques for workshops
  • Suggestions on how to create, communicate, and put forth a service vision

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781412938488
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2006
  • Page Count: 136
  • Publication date: July 06, 2006
Price: $26.95
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Description

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.

Author(s)

Author(s)

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John R. Hoyle

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.
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

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

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