Description
Using thought-provoking metaphors, this book takes an innovative look at leadership models and behaviors to help administrators reflect upon their roles and revitalize their leadership behaviors.
Table of Contents
Preface
About the Authors
1. The Presence and Power of Metaphors
Not Just Words
From Gilgamesh to Obama: Metaphors Communicate and Connect
How Metaphors Work
Why a Book About Metaphors for Educational Leaders?
Structure
Toward a New Kind of Wisdom
2. Leadership as Machine
Running the Factory
Leaders Running the Machine
Evaluating the Machine
On Being a Machine
The Machine Metaphor
3. Leadership as Accounting
The Relentless Pursuit of Rationality and Waste
Educational Hyperrationalization
The Cheating Culture: Corrosion of the Means/Ends Accountability Continuum
The Accounting Metaphor: A Chimera Wrapped Up as an Ideology
4. Leadership as War
Preparing for a Board Meeting
The Ambivalence of War Metaphors
Military Admonitions, Educational Situations, and Contradictions
The Way of the Warrior Is Death: Education Is Life
5. Leadership as Sport
Sports: Language and Action
The Little ?Closed-System? World of an Athletic Team
The Problem of the Charismatic Coach as a Model for the CEO
Understanding the Nature of Power
The Sports Metaphor: An Impossible Dream
6. Leadership as Theater
The School as Stage: What Lies Beneath?
The School as Staged: Long Run or Repertory?
The School as Staged: Acting Leadership
The School as Ritual Performance
School as Theater
7. Leadership as Religion
The Concept of the External Supreme Being
Towards Perfection: The Idea of Progress
Manifestations of Religion in Management and Educational Leadership
The Presence of ?Managementspeak? and Religious Rituals in School Practices
Warring Metaphors
The Power of Religious Metaphors: The Universal Versus The Dogmatic and Partisan Experience
Learning How to Lead Outside the Command and Control Model
8. Leadership as Lunacy
Lunacy as a Form of Toxicity
Leaders as Lunatics
The Lunatic Psyche
Symptoms, Signs and Pathologies
The Lunacy Metaphor
9. Metaphors of Leadership
The Uses of Metaphors
Grand Narratives
Positive Metaphors
So, Where to Now?
References
Index
