Decide to Lead

Mary B. Herrmann is a clinical assistant professor in the Education Policy, Organization and Leadership Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mary has had extensive building and district level leadership experience including serving as superintendent of three Mid-western school districts.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionSection 1: KnowChapter 1 In Search of Self Chapter 2 Motivation, Trust and EngagementChapter 3 Community and Context Section 2:Think Chapter 4 Forces that Shape our DecisionsChapter 5 Frames that Guide Decision-makingSection 3: DoChapter 6 Building Capacity: Teams and NetworksChapter 7 Building the Architecture for Decision-makingChapter 8 Deciding How to Decide: Employing Different Models.Chapter 9 Defining the Problem Chapter 10 Enacting Decisions and Leveraging Impact.Conclusion ResourcesReferences

I found Mary Herrmann’s Decide to Lead: Building Capacity and Leveraging Change through Decision-Making to be an exceptional and insightful book. I would encourage all superintendents and those aspiring to be superintendents to thoughtfully read this book. The importance of the intentionality of decision-making cannot be underestimated in the modern superintendency.