When everything changes: change everything

Walsch, N.D. (2010). When everything changes: change everything. London: Hodder.

Why do we make changes?
From ground zero or something else?
How can we make changes? It's all about how you view and what you move/do for that change.

Schools as curriculum agencies

Schools as curriculum agencies: asian and european perspectives on school-based curriculum development (2010)
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Leading in a culture of change (M. Fullan, 2001)

Fullan, M. (2001). Leading in a culture of change. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Five core components leading to sustainable change:
1. moral purpose
2. understanding of the process
3. building relationships
4. knowledge building
5. coherence making

Leadership for change: slow learning + learning in context

Effective/ineffective leadership: be judged by what leadership you produce in others.

Chapter 9 Distributed leadership: democracy or delivery? from Alma Harris (ed.) (2009) Distributed leadership: different perspectives

Democracy or delivery?
Complexity or linear development?
Which one suits the context?

Main ideas from this chapter include:
1. Networks
2. Shared targets
3. Self-evaluation
4. Local principal cooperation

You don't need a title to be a leader (Sanborn, M., 2006)

Sanborn, M. (2006). You don't need a title to be a leader. London: Random House Business Books.

The six principles of leadership:
1. self-mastery
2. focus
3. power with people
4. persuasive communication
5. execution
6. giving

Reflective question: How to be a great leader without a title?

Tribes (Godin, 2008)

Godin, S. (2008). Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us. London: Portfolio.

The idea of 'you can lead without a title' is rehearsed again in this book.
Some major ideas in this book are:
1. Leadership is not management
2. Leading from the bottom
3. Effective communication/networking can be transforming exchanges to make change.

Mlodinow, L. (2009). The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives. London: Penguin.

Mlodinow, L. (2009). The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives. London: Penguin.
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Chapter 1: Peering through the eyepiece of randomness
"The outline of our lives, like the candle's flame, is continuously coaxed in new directions by a variety of random events that, along with our responses to them, determine our fate. As a result, life is both hard to predict and hard to interpret." (p.4)
"Making wise assessments and choices in the face of uncertainty is a rare skill. But like any skill, it can be improved with experience." (p.6)
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