How Can You Become the Boss?

Dr. Mary Ann Jacobs has been an educator at every level – from teaching kindergarten to teaching post-graduate courses in leadership, assessment, curriculum, technology, instructional design and delivery.She has been a leader in classrooms, of schools, at the district level, as a consultant to educational leaders, as a primary investigator of an NSF STEM grant to join engineering and education. Dr. Remigia Kushner is a Professor of Education and Director of Educational Leadership in the Graduate Education Program at Manhattan College. She has been an elementary and secondary school teacher of math and science, a secondary principal, a district and associate superintendent with responsibility for the recruitment, retention, and development of school leaders. Her research interests include professional development, continuous improvement of teaching and learning, and reflective leadership practice.

• IntroductionPart I: Leadership DevelopmentChapter 1: Lead, Follow, or Get out of the Way Chapter 2: Secrets of LeadershipChapter 3: Growing Into LeadershipPart II: Leading SelfChapter 4: The Secret of Getting Ahead Is Getting Started Chapter 5: If You Always Succeed, You Are Overqualified Chapter 6: All Change Begins With a Change of MindReflection- Part IIPart III: Leading Others to Lead ThemselvesChapter 7: Find a Parade and Get in Front of It Chapter 8: Fusing Power and People Chapter 9: From Dependence to Independence to Interdependence Reflection – Part IIIPart IV: Leading/ Transforming the OrganizationChapter 10: All of Us Is Smarter Than One of UsChapter 11: If You Want to Be Smart, Hire Up Chapter 12: A Platform for Spreading Ideas That Work Reflection – Part IVPart V: The Future of LeadershipChapter 13: Leadership as Action, Not Position Chapter 14: Whatever You Are, Be a Good One Chapter 15: Participantship: The Future of Leadership _Toc448575277

How Can You Become the Boss? From Personal Mastery to Organizational Transformation is a must read for all administrators, business professionals, and students of leadership. The authors provide a strict reassurance that as leaders continue to evolve, the tenets surrounding transformational leadership remain true to the importance of putting theory into practice and enhancing investment in the mission of the organization for all stakeholders. The book further portrays the "future" of leadership being transformed to a participant-based system where the success of the leader is directly related to the advancements made by the members of the organization as a whole.