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Article: Books worth reading: Managing school districts for high performance; The principal as educator and leader.
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- Leadership
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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Warning: "Managing school districts for high performance" is a textbook and it is priced like one! The true value of this book is found in the included collection of case studies that have been used in the Public Education Leadership Project at Harvard University. The book is organized into five modules, with cases about "leaders in real organizations working on real performance problems." Interestingly, most modules begin with a case about a private sector company or a non-profit. For example, Module 1, Making Coherence Concrete, begins with John Martin's remarkable transformation of Taco Bell from a struggling company to a food industry giant. Even a quick read of this ...