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Cartwright, Talula – Center for Creative Leadership (NJ3), 2007
Successful leaders get results. To get results, you need to set priorities. This book can help you do a better job of setting priorities, recognizing the personal values that motivate your decision making, the probable trade-offs and consequences of your decisions, and the importance of aligning your priorities with your organization's…
Descriptors: Organizational Objectives, Needs Assessment, Textbook Content, Organizational Development
Johann, Bernard – 1995
This guide offers a comprehensive set of practical tools to lead novice and veteran practitioners through the complexities of business process redesign. This hands-on kit integrates systems theory, economics, and psychology to provide the detailed procedures, checklists, data analysis worksheets, and other resources essential to identify, analyze,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business, Design, Improvement Programs
Duffy, Francis M. – 1996
This book offers a step-by-step, systematic process for designing high-performance learning organizations. The process helps administrators develop proposals for redesigning school districts that are tailored to the district's environment, work system, and social system. Chapter 1 describes the characteristics of high-performing organizations, and…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Planning
Sagor, Richard – 1996
The movement toward school-based management (SBM) has promoted the need for self-imposed accountability. This book provides specific examples of strategies that schools have used to successfully implement SBM and to enhance their accountability functions. Chapter 1 provides the rationale for undertaking accountability measures, and the second…
Descriptors: Accountability, Action Research, Educational Assessment, Educational Cooperation
Carter, Patricia; Alfred, Richard – 1999
This monograph suggests that many of the fundamental aspects of the design and delivery of education are changing radically. At the same time, three forces are converging to destabilize educational institutions: a new generation of learners is rewriting the rules of service, technology is opening new frontiers, and a new breed of competitors is…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Colleges, Competition, Educational Change
Goodwin, Gregory; Young, James C. – 1978
Drawing heavily on the speeches and discussions that took place at a League for Innovation in the Community College conference held late in 1977 in North Carolina, this paper discusses the problem of increasing productivity in community colleges. Although escalating costs and decreasing revenues over the past decade have given the problem of…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Community Colleges, Conference Reports, Cooperation
Snyder, Karolyn J.; Anderson, Robert H. – 1986
Intended for use by graduate students in educational administration and supervision as well as by practicing school administrators, this book is a guide to the most effective practices surrounding the school principalship. Ideas in the book reflect current views of good management, including systems approaches, participative and collaborative…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Ecology, Educational Administration