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“This book will challenge, enlighten, and transform. The authors invite us to re-examine our core values as educational leaders, reconsider our priorities, and place the humanity of children at the center of our work.”
—Nancy Skerritt, Assistant Superintendent,Tahoma School District, Maple Valley, WA
“By their analysis, Lumby and English expose the power of language to shape meaning. By their skill, they illustrate the power of language to engage and enrich. Their work is an important contribution to how we understand and practice leadership in all fields.”
—Steven R. Thompson, Coordinator, School Leadership Program, Miami University
An imaginative approach to rethinking and revitalizing your leadership practice!
Research has shown that metaphors inspire leaders to reflect on their mind-sets, behaviors, practices, and approaches, leading to new perspectives on their roles. Using such thought-provoking and unexpected metaphors as “leadership as war” and “leadership as lunacy,” the authors draw readers through historical perspectives and cognitive possibilities that inspire, resolve, confuse, and provoke reflection on the state of leadership in education. This book examines the current discourse on educational leadership models, behaviors, and roles, and helps school and district leaders:
Understand the power of metaphor and how metaphors have been used to define leadership; Develop a deeper connection to their roles and their approaches; Initiate change in themselves and in others
By inspiring creative thinking and critical reflection, Leadership as Lunacy helps leaders achieve personal and professional growth and invigorate their professional relationships!
Leadership as Lunacy
Leadership as Lunacy
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The adjective “lunatic” first appeared in English around 1300, borrowed from the Old French word lunatique (insane), and traces its etymological roots to the Latin lunaticus, meaning moonstruck. Formerly, it was believed that attacks of insanity were precipitated by human reactions to different phases of the moon (Barnhart, 1995, p. 446). More recently, an external force inducing insanity is frequently understood to be the organization in which a person works. The use of lunacy as a metaphor to describe behaviors induced by organizations stretches back, arguably, to Weber's nineteenth-century critique of the effect of bureaucracy on the human experience (Lassman & Spiers, ...
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