Leadership and Futuring: Making Visions Happen / Edition 2

by John R. Hoyle

Overview

This updated guide is for visionary leaders striving to lead, inspire, and motivate students and team members toward positive personal visions, successful lives, and fulfilling careers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412938488
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/28/2006
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

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

Editorial Reviews

"Hoyle does an excellent job showing best practices through stories and experience. "

NACADA Journal

"A book about broadening skills to create new and exciting learning organizations that take people to places they have never been."

Future Survey