Future Focused Leaders

The latest from Bill Ziegler and David Ramage, Future Focused Leaders, provides school leaders with practical, relevant, and useable strategies for immediate application that promote sustainable innovation in leadership. Organized by three main overviews—Relate, Innovate, and Invigorate—each chapter ends with action steps for school leaders to take in order to strengthen their overall leadership abilities. · Relate: focuses on the effect relationships have on teacher and student success across an entire building; readers will learn strategies for conversational leadership, communication methods, and relationship building to create a culture of sharing and collaboration · Innovate: highlights tools and skills to change leaders’ approach to everyday school processes, incorporate technology, and inspire creativity in both staff and students · Invigorate: addresses the need for educators to return to their roots about why they went into education—to make a difference This book is for any school leader who is committed to building learning relationships, innovating for student success, and invigorating educators to make a difference in the life of every child.

Total Leaders puts the minds of the most respected futurist, leadership, and change authorities to work for you in one simple yet dynamic leadership model that will help you strengthen your insights, performance, and effectiveness. The authors, a former superintendent and a national reform leader, spent the past 15 years individually reading and collectively synthesizing more than 100 of the leading futurist and leadership theory books, and relating their findings to the realities of educational leadership today. This book is for you if you: are familiar with all the current leadership theory and would like to have it all put together in one practical model; haven't read much leadership research for some time and would like to catch up on it in an effective and efficient way; want proven strategies for dealing with a challenge to change your organization; are responsible for recruiting and evaluating educational leaders; or want to analyze your leadership performance and plan for future professional growth based upon what works.

A forward-looking guide to helping leaders in education and other fields better prepare students for such challenges as globalization, demographic shifts, and advances in technology.

"Fascinating - A teaching book that I couldn't put down!" If the world is changing, leadership needs to change. The world is changing. It is that simple; it is that complex. Through our work in TomorrowToday Global we have been at the very forefront of this intersection of a changing world and changing leadership across the broad scope of industries and sectors spanning all corners of the globe. And what we see concerns us. We see leaders who are frustrated that they can't mobilize their teams to adapt quickly enough to change. We see leaders who feel the horizon of their strategic plans rushing ever closer, resulting in decision making that often feels closer to guesswork than science. We see leaders battling to manage their teams, to keep and get the most of talent, to develop succession plans and to ensure everyone is focused on the same outcomes. We see leaders exasperated at the lack of initiative their teams have, and yet equally bound by increasing regulation, bureaucracy and inertia. We see leaders struggling to lead. We see leaders unable to admit that they're struggling to lead. Maybe the symptoms we've just listed don't all apply to you, or maybe you have a sense that your organization's problems lie elsewhere. Whatever the specific issues are, we're sure you'll agree with us that leadership isn't what it used to be. And a big part of the reason for this is that leadership itself is changing - just as the world around us is changing in dramatic ways. The leadership theory that underpins our practices of leadership is in need of review. For the most part, the way in which we review and measure leadership practice no longer works. The only way to change all this is for leaders (and those tasked with the responsibility of leadership development) to step back, rethink things and be willing to change. It means asking searching questions, challenging assumptions and revisiting formulae that have, for a very long time, worked rather well. This is easier said than done. But it can be done, and this is what this book is about. Future-focused leaders will gain insight into what it takes to succeed in a time of disruptive change. The book provides both a new lens through which to see the world and leadership, as well as practical tools and tips to help you make the journey towards a new leadership style and approach.

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Provides executive leadership teams with information, tools, and advice they need to lead their organizations into the "future of work," characterized by transformative, smart, and connected technologies already under way, including artificial intelligence, the Internet of things, and automation. The technological and economic forces of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) are shifting organizations in radical new directions. Automation is taking place not only in factories but in retail environments, and it is not just powerful or precise: it is intelligent, and it learns. Leaders must learn to rely on new sources of data, analytics, and intelligence in their efforts to anticipate emerging trends, forecast unforeseen consequences, make sense of systems and complexity, communicate constantly, build strong networks based on trust, and ultimately, win a following. Future-Ready Leadership is an invaluable resource for leaders and leadership educators seeking to transform 4IR trends into a source of collaborative (as opposed to competitive) advantage. A blueprint for reshaping the future of work, the book meets readers' "awareness need" by exploring cutting-edge research on technology's impact on the workplace. Each chapter uses data to set up a specific future of work leadership challenge, offering readers practical solutions and advice, actionable recommendations, and tools for reflection and action that can be put into practice right away.

Seize the Future: A leader's guide to mastering the art of being future-fit and leading with relevance. In an era of constant flux, Relevant emerges as an indispensable roadmap for today's leaders. It's a clarion call to executives, entrepreneurs and C-suite teams who aspire to master the art of thriving in an unpredictable, AI-infused world. This transformative book equips you with future-focused 'lenses' to make sense of and navigate our world of work with clarity and agility. It addresses the pressing issues of our times - complexity, uncertainty, technological advancements, and social dynamics - while providing you with actionable strategies for leading with foresight and adaptability. Drawing from extensive experience and profound insights, Louise Mowbray offers you a compelling journey through the realms of conscious leadership, systems thinking and innovative behaviours, vital for leading with relevance in the unfolding future. Relevant is a must-read that will change how you understand yourself, others, the future and our extraordinary world.