Decide to Lead: Building Capacity and Leveraging Change Through Decision-Making - Hardcover

Mary B. Herrmann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 147581304X ISBN 13: 9781475813043

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK), 2017

Synopsis

Decide to Lead explores decision-making and all its complexity. Decision-making is, and has always been at the heart and soul of leadership activity. Leaders are responsible and held accountable for the decisions that are made within the organization, whether they personally make them or not. Enhanced with resources and questions for further reflection, Decide to Lead examines decision-making through the lens of a leader. The book addresses what leaders know: knowledge of self, knowledge of others, and knowledge of one’s community and context; how leaders think, with a focus on cognitive systems and the forces that influence decision-making; and what leaders do to set up the conditions for effective decision-making in their organizations. This includes leader actions such as building capacity, designing a decision friendly organizational architecture and effectively employing decision-making models and processes.

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About the Author

Mary B. Herrmann, Ph.D. is a clinical associate professor in the Education Policy, Organization and Leadership Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Herrmann has had extensive leadership experience, including serving as a superintendent in multiple school districts and as an elected Village trustee.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147581304X
• ISBN 13: 9781475813043
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 106