Future-focused leadership : preparing schools, students, and communities for tomorrow's realities / Gary Marx.

Instructs educators on how to be future-focused leaders. Includes trends that will affect education; ways to scan the environment and the world at large; a plan for setting priorities based on probabilities; a 4-step issue management process; steps to developing plausible scenarios for guiding strat...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Marx, Gary
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Alexandria, Va. : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, ©2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • The leader as a connected generalist
  • Guiding principles for future-oriented leaders
  • The importance of being connected-internally and externally
  • Trends: identifying and analyzing their impact
  • Issue management
  • More tools and techniques for scanning the environment
  • Characteristics: identifying what we want to become
  • Scenarios: "what if?" and "then what?"
  • Strategic communication
  • Getting the ball rolling.