Product Overview
In Turnaround Leadership, Michael Fullanan internationally recognized leader on educational reformexpands the definition of organizational turnaround and shows how leaders can turn even the worst situation into an opportunity to shake-up and rejuvenate their schools. Indeed he goes beyond turnaround schools to show how entire systems can be transformed.Fullan examines the dynamics of what makes societiesand education systemshealthy or sick. He identifies the positive things turnaround schools do to get off the critical list, and explores what it takes to motivate large numbers of people to go beyond short-term solutions in order to achieve fundamental, sustainable reform. Ultimately, Turnaround Leadership focuses on the critical role of leadershipnot the Lone Ranger leader who rides into town and saves a single school, but leaders whose very actions change the systems they work in.
This book is a volume in the Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Educationa series designed to meet the demand for new ideas and insights about leadership in schools.
