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  breakthrough leadership book: Breakthrough Leadership in the Digital Age Frederick M. Hess, Bror Saxberg, 2013-10-07 By deconstructing learning science and making the connection to technology, Hess and Saxberg have outlined key strategies for school leaders as they work to transform traditional practices in schools. Whether it is whole-school reform or targeted interventions, principals will be motivated to rethink or‘re-engineer’ the use of technology to optimize teaching and learning. —Gail Connelly, Executive Director National Association of Elementary School Principals Everyone touching education—from educators to school leaders and from investors and philanthropists to entrepreneurs—needs to understand how to think like a learning engineer and read this book. Technology holds unbelievable promise to be a part of the solution to transform education, but it won’t happen unless all parties attack its implementation smartly. Breakthrough Leadership in a Digital Age points the way forward. —Michael B. Horn, Co-Founder & Education Executive Director Clayton Christensen Institute Too often, our current structures fail to promote and support learning engineering. Rick Hess and Bror Saxberg have designed a compelling guide for the road ahead. —William Hite, Superintendent School District of Philadelphia, PA Reboot student learning the right way! Today’s most successful school leaders are truly learning engineers: creative thinkers who redefine their problems and design new ways to better serve kids’ success. Technology has a critical role, but it’s the creative reinvention of schools, systems, and classrooms that has to come first. In this powerful book, best-selling author and education policy expert Rick Hess and chief learning officer Bror Saxberg show you how to become your school′s learning engineer. Using cutting-edge research about learning science as a framework, you’ll: Identify specific learning problems that need solving Devise smarter ways to address them Implement technology-enabled, not technology-driven, solutions
  breakthrough leadership book: Breakthrough Leadership Terry Lee, 2019-08-01 This book is an introduction to breakthrough leadership. It is a new frontier in leadership because it is concerned not only with what leaders do but also with the impact they have on the people they lead. It is based on a decade of applied research into three key issues: What is it that leaders do to inspire the people they lead? What are the impediments to the development of potential that these leaders help their people to break through? How can organizations build competitive advantage by unlocking this potential in their workforce? In essence, breakthrough leadership is the process by which leaders inspire their followers to grow, to perform, and to develop more of their potential. They do this by helping them to remove the impediments to that development. A great deal of the limitations that people experience in their work is self-imposed and related to self-limiting thinking. This book identifies the six distinctive behaviors that leaders adopt, which can help their people to break through this self-limiting thinking. Organizations today have moved toward performance cultures in their search for growth. Managers globally have been trained in the skills of performance leadership, and as a consequence, there have been great gains in productivity. The next productivity leaps for organizations will come from realizing the untapped talent that exists in the workforce. This book is the culmination of a decade of work with companies such as CSL, Cisco Systems, Wesfarmers, and Fuji Xerox into change and transformational leadership.
  breakthrough leadership book: Breakthrough Leadership Alan M. Blankstein, Marcus J. Newsome, 2020-08-25 Now is the time for Breakthrough Leadership This book was borne out of urgency. We face the consequences of a raging pandemic, coupled with an unprecedented call to end racial injustice. COVID-19 has exposed longstanding structural inequities, while at the same time offering a rare breakthrough opportunity to dismantle inequitable systems that have harmed our most marginalized students for generations. Breakthrough Leadership is rooted in moral courage and calls us to act upon a new discovery, or epiphany about a fundamental truth that challenges previous beliefs. While this book offers examples of schools that were beating the odds pre-COVID-19 as well as strategies for changing those odds in the future. Breakthrough Leadership also spotlights professionals now leveraging crises like this to shape local and national priorities toward a more equitable and healthy society for our children in order to: Create and sustain Equitable Learning Communities (ELCs) that are grounded in relational trust Establish comprehensive systems to ensure that all students thrive Implement cutting-edge principles of effective curriculum, instruction, and assessment including culturally responsive teaching, trauma-informed practice, and blended learning Meaningfully engage families and community Leadership from the classroom to the board room is needed to advance an agenda of equitable and successful outcomes for our students. The facts stakes couldn’t be starker. Good leadership saves lives both in pandemics, and in our profession. The critical variable that determines whether or not our schools can respond adequately to the numerous challenges that they and their children face is leadership. . . This book is about the work of such leaders. In big cities, small towns, and rural areas, a small number of principals and superintendents are showing that progress can be made when leaders have the resourcefulness and courage to address equity challenges directly. The educational leaders profiled in this book have a clear sense of how to systematically build the capacity of teachers and schools to meet the needs of the students they serve. I urge other leaders to learn from them so that great schools that serve all children well, will be the norm, rather than the exception. ~Pedro Noguera With all its devastation, COVID-19 also presents the opportunity of the century to transform the public education system that, to say the least, has become stalled and stagnant in the past 50 years. . . . Breakthrough Leadership makes a significant contribution to our next phase, which must be one of definable and targeted transformation of equity-based learning. ~Michael Fullan
  breakthrough leadership book: Breakthrough Leadership with Karla Munkel Karla Munkel, 2021-10-15
  breakthrough leadership book: Mastering Leadership Robert J. Anderson, William A. Adams, 2015-11-30 Is your leadership a competitive advantage, or is it costing you? How do you know? Are you developing your leadership effectiveness at the pace of change? For most leaders today, complexity is outpacing their personal and collective development. Most leaders are in over their heads, whether they know it or not. The most successful organizations over time are the best led. While this has always been true, today escalating global complexity puts leadership effectiveness at a premium. Mastering Leadership involves developing the effectiveness of leaders—individually and collectively—and turning that leadership into a competitive advantage. This comprehensive roadmap for optimal leadership features: Breakthrough research that connects increased leadership effectiveness with enhanced business performance The first fully integrated Universal Model of Leadership—one that integrates the best theory and research in the fields of Leadership and Organizational Development over the last half century A free, online self-assessment of your leadership, using the Leadership Circle Profile, visibly outlining how you are currently leading and how to develop even greater effectiveness The five stages in the evolution of leadership—Egocentric, Reactive, Creative, Integral, and Unitive—along with the organizational structures and cultures that develop at each of these stages Six leadership practices for evolving your leadership capability at a faster pace A map of your optimal path to greater leadership effectiveness Case stories that facilitate pragmatic application of this Leadership Development System to your particular situation This timeless, authoritative text provides a systemic approach for developing your senior leaders and the leadership system of your organization. It does not recommend quick fixes, but argues that real development requires a strategic, long-term, and integrated approach in order to forge more effective leaders and enhanced business performance. Mastering Leadership offers a developmental pathway to bring forth the highest and best use of yourself, your life, and your leadership. By more meaningfully deploying all of who you are every day, individually and collectively, you will achieve a leadership legacy consistent with your highest aspirations.
  breakthrough leadership book: Breakthrough Leadership with Kimberly O'Neill Kimberly O'Neill, 2021-10-25
  breakthrough leadership book: Breakthrough Thomas Gelmi, 2019-03-28 Managers, employees, and customers meet in the limited space of an aircraft. They interact and encounter conflicts such as those found in other areas of the world of work. How the interaction takes place strongly depends on the skills and performance of the cabin crew, who at best must anticipate and de-escalate challenges and at worst solve them immediately and without help from the outside. This calls for the highest level of personal and interpersonal competence—with all the consequences. So what can managers and employees learn from the setting on board? Each chapter begins with exciting real-life stories that happened at a certain latitude and longitude and an altitude of thirty thousand feet. The reader directly recognizes parallels to his or her life, tracks down problems faster in the future, and finds new solutions. If you want to increase your professional and personal effectiveness, this book is a must-read for you.
  breakthrough leadership book: Breakthrough Leadership Team Mike Goldman, 2020 This is NOT a leadership book. If you want to be the leader of a growing, profitable business that positively impacts the lives of employees and clients, it'll take more than leveling up your capacity and capabilities as leader. It will require a leadership team of A-players who can work with you to create a vibrant, winning environment that cas.
  breakthrough leadership book: Leadership Breakthrough Karen Lindsey, 2013-10-15 Karens coaching was instrumental in helping me reach farther than ever in my career. And, the results our team achieved have been significant for our organization Scott Schiller, Executive Vice President, NBCUniversal Working with Karen Lindsey as a coach was one of the most profoundly productive things Ive done to enhance my leadership skills, management style, executive presence and strategic thinking. Her highly effective approach begins with a solid analysis of areas for improvement followed by jointly determining actionable goals and how to best achieve and sustain them. She is one the most results-oriented people Ive ever had the pleasure of working with. I think she can be helpful to anyone and everyone. Executive Vice President, Home Box Office (HBO) Karen is an amazing executive coach. Her insights, ideas and practices have helped me reach my goals and be a better leader Executive Vice President, Viacom Media Networks [Karens approach] forced me to identify specific habits or behaviors that separated me from the results I desired [she] helped me identify and solve my unique challenges with solutions that would work uniquely for me. Vice Chairman, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. The coaching process has been an amazing experience for me. I found all aspects of the process to be educational, eye-opening, informative and on-point. As a coach, [Karen has] been nothing but nurturing, tough, supportive and insightful. [She has] truly helped me to find out things about myself as an executive and as a person... David Shall, Head of Business Operations & General Counsel, Vuguru LLC
  breakthrough leadership book: Secrets of Breakthrough Leadership Peter Capezio, Debra L. Morehouse, 1997 Don't follow the antiquated notion that only top executives can be leaders. Leadership should occur at all levels. Secrets of Breakthrough Ladership helps you to develop the mind-set you need to lead -- act, influence and motivate -- from anywhere in your organization. The book clearly outlines a plan that helps you work with others and, more important, influence them, whether you work at a small business or a Fortune 500 comany.
  breakthrough leadership book: Boundless Leadership Joe Loizzo, Elazar Aslan, 2021-12-21 Gold Nautilus Book Award Winner Realize your fullest leadership potential, claim your boldest vision, and prioritize the well-being of your team and world with this new science-based approach to leadership. Boundless Leadership provides a complete and systematic roadmap to finding meaning in your work, realizing your full leadership potential, and inspiring your team with resilience, innovation, compassion and confidence. Contemplative psychotherapist Joe Loizzo, MD, PhD, and executive advisor Elazar Aslan, MBA, PCC, offer a new science-based vision of leadership that prescribes disciplines of mind, heart, and body to help leaders cultivate clarity, compassion and fearlessness for themselves and throughout their organization. Boundless Leadership offers accessible, real world applications to bring ease to leading oneself and others, and provides examples from the authors' experience with clients, including CEOs of multi-billion-dollar businesses, entrepreneurs and managers trying to balance the complex challenges of work and life in our interdependent age. Each section includes a range of practices based on neuropsychology and contemplative science, including guided meditations to improve focus and awareness, cultivate empathy and compassion, and build fearlessness and flow. Each section also offers a practical application to ease daily challenges, including clarifying intentions for better decision-making, improving accountability and responsibility for better team collaboration, and embodying purpose to optimize impact on one’s organization and society at large. Boundless Leadership is especially needed during this explosion of remote working and provides advice and guidance to remain productive and joyful when your work environment is in flux. Whether you're a CEO, manager, team leader, consultant, coach, social entrepreneur or community activist, this book offers the tools you need to clarify your vision, lead others, and ignite positive change in the world--giving you a much needed advantage in today’s fast-paced digital age.
  breakthrough leadership book: B State Mark Samuel, 2018-10-16 Transforming Business, Organizational Culture, and Self In business and life, there are often moments when one simply can't seem to find a way forward. Searching in the past for solutions to persistent problems results in frustration and confusion. Issues in corporate teamwork and individual relationships can feel overwhelming and even insurmountable. There’s a lack of control and a sense of being stuck. B State provides a clear roadmap from point A to point B to rapidly achieve measurable, breakthrough results. It’s about a true transformation that removes old mindsets and silos, while replacing inefficient behaviors with desired habits to quickly create the highest performing culture for groundbreaking business outcomes. Equipped with over 30 years of professional and academic expertise, author, speaker, and change agent Mark Samuel helps companies (and the individuals that comprise them) achieve their B State, enabling them to make the necessary changes they didn’t think were possible. His strategies for finding and enacting solutions to complex challenges use real life examples to help readers embrace accountability and envision their success in order to achieve the transformation they need. This book focuses readers on where they want to go, and it helps them get there fast. ​Written for business executives, managers, supervisors, and leaders at all levels, this is a book about how to not just do business but also live life. It brings about the dynamic forward launch readers are looking for, creating results that are both unprecedented and sustainable.
  breakthrough leadership book: A Culture of Excellence Fardad Fateri, James York, 2018-09-07 What is leadership? What is organizational culture, and why does it matter? How can you ensure your organization excels even while others fail? As the CEO and CLO of a large distributed multi-site and multi-state organization, Dr. Fardad Fateri and James E. York are certainly qualified to answer these questions and more-between them, they have decades of experience leading businesses and organizations at every level. Now for the first time they've put their collected wisdom into an essential book explaining how to take your organization to top levels of performance. The magic word is one you've heard but perhaps not fully considered: culture. At a time of economic uncertainty, it's more vital than ever that your organization's culture encourages passion, responsibility, and success. But how? Read on to discover: -How to transform your organization from one of failure, cynicism, and weakness to one of success, peak performance, and responsibility. -How to display breakthrough leadership traits that will help foster a positive organizational culture. -Real-life examples of great organizational cultures, as well as hands-on lessons. With an ever-increasing gap between organizations that fail and those that skyrocket, the question isn't whether you should read A Culture of Excellence-it's whether you can afford not to!
  breakthrough leadership book: Breakthrough Leadership with Melissa Wade Melissa Wade, 2021-12-02
  breakthrough leadership book: Beyond Change Management Dean Anderson, Linda Ackerman Anderson, 2001-03-12 Transform your organization! To truly transform your organization, you must learn to transform your own mindset. Beyond Change Management-the only book specifically about the interaction of leadership style, mindset, and the change process-revolutionizes leaders' approach to transformational change. Shattering the myth that transformation can be managed, this book-part of the Practicing OD Series--offers you new directions and ways of thinking and behaving that are essential for successful change. Its unique approach brings organization development (OD) into the mainstream of leaders' approaches to change, expanding and integrating the fields of OD, leadership, change management, and consciousness. You'll also get: ready-to-use worksheets questionnaires guidelines Powerful business solutions to the current chaos facing many organizations today. Dean Anderson and Linda Ackerman Anderson get to the heart of change, the human touch, by using timeless techniques and tools. --Ken Blanchard, coauthor, The One Minute Manager and Gung Ho! The authors combine their keen observations, sharp insights, and open hearts to produce towering works that will stand as lasting contributions to leadership and organization development. . . .[t]hey guide us along a path of personal discovery so that we may have the strength of spirit to risk the creation of more meaningful organizations. --Jim Kouzes, coauthor, The Leadership Challenge and Encouraging the Hear
  breakthrough leadership book: Breakthrough to Goodness Jodi Harpstead, Paul Batz, 2019-09-16 Learn how Jodi Harpstead's philosophy of Breakthrough Goals and Biggest Possibilities created unprecedented growth at corporate Medtronic-and transformed outcomes at Minnesota's largest human services non-profit, Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota. You will see exactly how LSS senior managers are supercharging their leadership and spreading goodness further and faster.
  breakthrough leadership book: Soul Sense Adrienne Arien Duffy, 2017-08-08 From the innovative leadership coach and co-creator of The Moon Project® comes a book about finding your way back to meaning and purpose in work and life. Through the hundreds of people Adrienne Duffy has guided toward the realization of their full potential, and in the hundreds of workshops she has facilitated, one message has emerged universally over others: “We want something in addition to the achievement of goals and results. We are people who aim high and take risks, but we also long to have meaning and to be grounded. How can we create a more centered, purposeful life and workspace, in this era of constant change, chaos, and minute-by-minute progress?” Soul Sense is the answer: Listening to your Soul Call, stoking your Soul Fire, and practicing Soul Care brings depth, growth, and balance. Soul Sense can be thought of as common sense seasoned with the sixth sense. It is what is known as good, and right, and just in one’s personal and professional life, while embracing the powers of intuition that transcend such definitions. Soul Sense is logical and instinctual, practical and untamed. Tuning into and trusting your Soul Sense brings increasing fulfillment to your life, and to the lives of those around you. The courageous choice to honor your Soul Sense, ultimately, is up to you—and it is Duffy’s joy and intention to lead you toward this profound gift. Your Soul Sense awaits . . .
  breakthrough leadership book: Breakthrough Principals Jean Desravines, Jaime Aquino, Benjamin Fenton, 2016-03-17 Bridge the achievement gap with proven strategies for student success Breakthrough Principals debunks the myth of the 'superhero' principal by detailing the common actions and practices of leaders at our nation's fastest-gaining public schools. Based on the authors' Transformational Leadership Framework, which they developed through in-depth study of more than 100 high-gaining, high-poverty schools, the book distills findings into a practical, action-focused plan for diagnosing school needs and implementing structures, systems and practices that accelerate student achievement. Brought to life by case studies of principals who have led dramatic gains in student achievement, the book is a how-to guide for increasing the quality of teaching and learning; improving school culture; attracting and supporting high-performing teachers; and involving parents and community to help students achieve. You'll learn how breakthrough principals make the school's mission a real part of both strategy and practice, and set up sustainable systems that support consistent, ongoing improvement. High-impact practices are organized into five broad categories: learning and teaching, school-wide culture, aligned staff, operations and systems, and personal leadership. The primary job of school leadership is to help students succeed. It begins with first recognizing and prioritizing areas of need, then finding and implementing the most effective solutions. Whether you work in a turn around environment, or want to make a good school better, this book will give you a set of concrete practices—illustrated through examples of real principals in real schools—that have been proven to work. Discover the primary drivers of student achievement Work toward the school's vision in staffing, operations, and systems Set the tone for all relationships and practices with good leadership Closing the achievement gap is a major goal of educational leadership, and principals are forever searching for viable methods that help them better serve their students. Breakthrough Principals unveils the details behind the success stories from across the nation to provide a roadmap to transformative gains.
  breakthrough leadership book: Breakthrough Conversations for Coaches, Consultants and Leaders Graham Lee, 2021-09-14 Conversational effectiveness is a barometer of human thriving and facilitating insightful conversations is a powerful method for accelerating psychological change and collaboration. This ground-breaking professional book provides a map of Breakthrough Conversations together with a practical toolkit for enhancing awareness, emotional resilience and creativity. Neuroscience, mindfulness and psychological research shows that awareness is pivotal to skilful conversations. By supporting clients to observe and manage their own body-brain states during conversation, they can learn to switch on the physiological systems that support more authentic, agile, and attuned interactions. Three body-brain states, reactive, habitual and reflective – characterised as Red, Amber and Green (RAG) - are differentiated in terms of body-sensations and behaviours, and these correspond to predictable interactive patterns. Facilitated to experience more emotionally resilient conversations, clients access their natural capacities for collaboration, compassion and shared creativity. This journey, through the five stages of Breakthrough Conversations, drawing on the RAG frame and a number of other practical models, is richly illustrated with case studies from working one-to-one and with pairs. Coming to see conversations as a dance driven by the interactions of underlying needs and emotions frees clients to make paradigm shifts in their self-awareness and interpersonal effectiveness. This book, and the approach it outlines, will be essential reading for coaches, consultants, leaders and all professionals seeking to choreograph more insightful conversations.
  breakthrough leadership book: Breakthrough Leadership Chip Townsend, Jody Holland, 2014-05-14 Breakthrough Leadership helps leaders from all walks of life to understand the methodology to overcome challenges, inspire teams, and break through barriers. Chip Townsend and Jody Holland have unlocked the keys for you to personally succeed and to help your team to succeed at higher and higher levels as well. T.E.A.M. C.H.I.P. is an acronym that demonstrates the values, attitudes, and actions that leading to winning in life. Each of us must strive to be... Teachable Excellent Accountable Motivated Courteous Honest Inspired Persevering When you live your life, run your business, and interact with others using the T.E.A.M. C.H.I.P. model, you live a life that inspires others into greatness! Becoming a breakthrough leader is a journey that does not end. It is the process of waking up every day and deciding to be the best possible version of yourself that could exist. It isn't about your title, your tenure, or your things. It is about your heart being aligned with the values that make you a positive influence. Breaking through barriers is a never ending process. There is always one more challenge that we will face. There is always something that presents itself as a barrier to leaving a legacy through our leadership. When you focus on the barrier itself, it can be a real challenge and can often slow you down or even stop you. When you focus beyond the barrier, and remember that you were designed for greatness, then you easily break through to the other side. Keep your focus on the other side of the barrier, always! Keep your eyes on the prize and keep moving forward. Every challenge that you are presented with is intended to give you the opportunity to grow and become stronger. The reason that we exercise is to break down our muscles and rebuild them even stronger and faster than they were before. The reason that we face challenges as leaders is so we can chip away the things that keep us from being all that we were intended to be and we can break through to success. Think about how the challenges that you have faced have shaped you. Every challenge presented you with an opportunity for growth. Ask yourself the question... What can I learn from this challenge? If you will ask that question with every challenge you face, you will keep learning every single day. Be Teachable!
  breakthrough leadership book: Leadership Rigor! Erica Peitler, 2014-07-15 Transform the Way You Lead! Leadership Rigor offers innovation in leadership through its breakthrough approaches for transforming the way you lead. The simple truth is that how you lead is the precursor to what you can achieve as a leader, yet it is often underestimated, dismissed, or not given a conscious consideration. In March 2014, Bersin by Deloitte published their latest Global Human Capital Trend Survey stating: Building leadership capability is by far the most urgent need for companies today... and companies see the need for leadership at all levels, in all geographies, and across all functional areas. In addition, this continuous need for new and better leaders has accelerated. Leadership Rigor views your development as a journey with a road map rather than a black-box mystery! It is both a practice and a philosophy designed to accelerate your leadership performance and productivity across the life cycle of your career. Already becoming a movement, Leadership Rigor prepares you to lead yourself, teams, and organizations. The essence of Leadership Rigor is creating change-ready leaders who can embrace challenges because they have the tools, models, and language to assess, structure, and facilitate aligned actions. They also have the mindset and emotional skills to lean into the change process despite its uncomfortable nature. By innovating on their preparedness first, these change-ready leaders are equipped to realize the growth in themselves and in their teams or organizations. Are you ready to take on your personal journey of Leadership Rigor?
  breakthrough leadership book: Breakthrough Michael Fullan, Peter Hill, Carmel Crévola, 2006-04-05 Redesign classroom instruction to transform learning for both students and teachers! Breakthrough presents a revolutionary new approach to educational reform, breaking away from the conventional paradigm to help educators create powerful, focused instruction that raises and sustains performance levels in the classroom. Based on three core components—personalization, precision, and professional learning—these breakthrough concepts turn reform into precise, data-driven classroom instruction personalized to every student. Unique elements of the Breakthrough framework include: Improvement by design Assessment for learning Critical learning instructional paths Mapping instructional paths Smart use of data to drive instruction Locking in ongoing improvement
  breakthrough leadership book: The Ten-Minute Principal Evan Robb, 2019-05-06 Rebuilding your day--How ten minutes can make the difference between ordinary and fantastic leadership A principal’s enthusiastic vision is often thwarted by daily demands. There never seems time for carefully laid plans. But what if you made the most of ten-minute blocks scattered through your day? Could you make progress? This book says Yes! and will help you improve, but not overwhelm yourself or staff. It will show you how to intentionally use ten-minute opportunities to consider, kickstart, and execute your vision. Based on six pillars of school leadership, vision, relationships, trust, efficacy, student-centeredness, and instructional knowledge each chapter will: Introduce a leadership topic Offer a ten minute opportunity to consider where you are and what you might change Give a ten minute tip on how to get started, as well as overcome challenges Provide ten minute collaborative opportunities to gain buy-in and participation Discover how to build the foundations of effective leadership and be a school [helping teachers and students grow and improve] despite daily demands. Make the most of chunks of time to refine your craft and become a reflective and intentional leader.
  breakthrough leadership book: Breakthrough Management Shoji Shiba, David Walden, 2006-08 Today need for breakthrough often arises because of business globalization. This book describes principles, skills, and patterns for transformational leadership. The book also includes examples of companies that are struggling with and dealing with the effects of globalization. The book is for English-language readers not only in North America and western Europe but in all countries where there is rapid business change and development, as in Eastern Europe and Asia. We have included case studies from countries in Asia, Europe, and North America. Our target readers are people in companies that are trying to move into new business areas for whatever reason or that must compete on a large geographic scale -- nationally or internationally. Most specifically, we are writing for official leaders of companies as well as for change leaders within companies or other organizations who are trying for change and/or have the freedom to change. The methods we describe apply to all types of activities -- product or service, nonprofit or for-profit, charitable, religious, manufacturing, health care, and so forth.
  breakthrough leadership book: Breakthrough Leadership Alan M. Blankstein, Marcus J. Newsome, 2020-08-25 Now is the time for Breakthrough Leadership This book was borne out of urgency. We face the consequences of a raging pandemic, coupled with an unprecedented call to end racial injustice. COVID-19 has exposed longstanding structural inequities, while at the same time offering a rare breakthrough opportunity to dismantle inequitable systems that have harmed our most marginalized students for generations. Breakthrough Leadership is rooted in moral courage and calls us to act upon a new discovery, or epiphany about a fundamental truth that challenges previous beliefs. While this book offers examples of schools that were beating the odds pre-COVID-19 as well as strategies for changing those odds in the future. Breakthrough Leadership also spotlights professionals now leveraging crises like this to shape local and national priorities toward a more equitable and healthy society for our children in order to: Create and sustain Equitable Learning Communities (ELCs) that are grounded in relational trust Establish comprehensive systems to ensure that all students thrive Implement cutting-edge principles of effective curriculum, instruction, and assessment including culturally responsive teaching, trauma-informed practice, and blended learning Meaningfully engage families and community Leadership from the classroom to the board room is needed to advance an agenda of equitable and successful outcomes for our students. The facts stakes couldn’t be starker. Good leadership saves lives both in pandemics, and in our profession. The critical variable that determines whether or not our schools can respond adequately to the numerous challenges that they and their children face is leadership. . . This book is about the work of such leaders. In big cities, small towns, and rural areas, a small number of principals and superintendents are showing that progress can be made when leaders have the resourcefulness and courage to address equity challenges directly. The educational leaders profiled in this book have a clear sense of how to systematically build the capacity of teachers and schools to meet the needs of the students they serve. I urge other leaders to learn from them so that great schools that serve all children well, will be the norm, rather than the exception. ~Pedro Noguera With all its devastation, COVID-19 also presents the opportunity of the century to transform the public education system that, to say the least, has become stalled and stagnant in the past 50 years. . . . Breakthrough Leadership makes a significant contribution to our next phase, which must be one of definable and targeted transformation of equity-based learning. ~Michael Fullan
  breakthrough leadership book: Performance Breakthrough Cathy Rose Salit, 2016-04-12 Break through to your peak performance! Whether you're navigating your way on a new team, expanding your leadership role, or just trying to get heard in a meeting, you're facing the kind of workplace challenge we all run into sooner or later: you need a new performance. In Performance Breakthrough, Cathy Salit presents the revolutionary strategies that she's proven successful through over twenty years' experience custom-creating workshops for powerhouse clients including American Express, Nike, Coca-Cola, and DIRECTV. Artfully blending techniques from theatrical performance with the new science of performative psychology, Salit guides readers through forging new relationships guaranteed to yield greater success and satisfaction. Performance Breakthrough outlines proven techniques, including taking an emotional inventory; crafting new scripts for greater confidence, stronger relationships, and better outcomes; building ensembles; improvising; and listening -- really listening -- including accepting others' criticism and input. No matter what your challenge, Salit's innovative philosophy, case studies, practical exercises, and inspiring advice will help you deliver your own top performance.
  breakthrough leadership book: Disciplined Dreaming Josh Linkner, 2011-01-13 A 5-part process that will transform your organization — or your career — into a non-stop creativity juggernaut We live in an era when business cycles are measured in months, not years. The only way to sustain long term innovation and growth is through creativity-at all levels of an organization. Disciplined Dreaming shows you how to create profitable new ideas, empower all your employees to be creative, and sustain your competitive advantage over the long term. Linkner distills his years of experience in business and jazz — as well as hundreds of interviews with CEOs, entrepreneurs, and artists — into a 5-step process that will make creativity easy for you and your organization. The methodology is simple, backed by proven results. Empowers individuals, teams, and organizations to meet creative challenges posed by the marketplace Turns the mystery of creativity into a simple-to-use process Shows how creativity can be used for everything from innovative, game-shifting breakthroughs to incremental advances and daily improvements to business processes Offers dozens of practical exercises, thought-starters, workouts to grow creative muscles, and case studies Disciplined Dreaming shows even the stuffiest corporate bureaucracies how to cultivate creativity in order to become more competitive in today's shifting marketplace. #4 New York Times Best Seller (Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous) #8 New York Times Best Seller (Hardcover Business) #2 Wall Street Journal Best Seller (Hardcover Business) #9 Wall Street Journal Best Seller (Hardcover Nonfiction) #9 Washington Post Best Seller (Hardcover Nonfiction) #1 USA Today Best Seller (Money) #10 Entertainment Weekly Best Seller (Hardcover Nonfiction) #10 Publishers Weekly Bestseller (Hardcover Nonfiction)
  breakthrough leadership book: Breakthrough David C.M. Carter, 2013-04-30 Choose to be the best version of yourself—and keep on choosing it! For the first time, the world's leading mentor David C.M. Carter shares his most effective breakthrough secrets in this practical guide to becoming the best you can be. Previously only accessible to his handful of exclusive international clients, these strategies are the key to a more successful and happier you. By following them, you will learn how to identify and clarify your goals—and then achieve them in every area of your life. With simple easy-to-action breakthroughs outlined in each chapter, complete with how-to tools, you'll have no excuse to live anything less than the life you were destined to live.
  breakthrough leadership book: The Sky is Not the Limit Bart Barthelemy, 1994
  breakthrough leadership book: Breakthrough Leadership in the Digital Age Frederick M. Hess, Bror Saxberg, 2014 “By deconstructing learning science and making the connection to technology, Hess and Saxberg have outlined key strategies for school leaders as they work to transform traditional practices in schools. Whether it is whole-school reform or targeted interventions, principals will be motivated to rethink or‘re-engineer’ the use of technology to optimize teaching and learning.” —Gail Connelly, Executive Director National Association of Elementary School Principals.
  breakthrough leadership book: Breakthrough Leadership Frederica A Peterson MA, 2016-04-11 Successful Leaders Depend on Breakthroughs to Stay CompetitiveBreakthrough Leadership explores the relationship between breakthroughs and leadership, providing key insights into the intricate connection between the two.Successful organizations depend on great leadership. Your leadership success increasingly depends on your ability to adapt to changing times, your ability to evolve to embrace new dynamics, as well as your own ongoing personal transformation as a leader.e;Think of the transformation as a process of buildup followed by breakthroughe; - Jim C. Collins, author e;Good to Greate;Using an interview format, Breakthrough Leadership is a conversation with 6 successful business leaders from completely different industries. Each author highlights the common qualities in both breakthroughs and leadership, as well as their own unique point of view and experiences.Insights shared include: - Great leaders know they need to transform themselves first before they can lead others. - Breakthroughs can happen when you are trying really hard to achieve them, and when you aren't trying at all. - Breakthroughs can be tiny, micro events and they can be monumental ones that are hard won and life changing.The authors: Frederica A. Peterson, MA Henry M. Lee, Esq. Marian S. White Steven Griswold, CHRS Sue Anne Dunlevie Wei Houng
  breakthrough leadership book: Project and Program Excellence Thomas Pavelko, 2021 This book provides insight, measures, and tools to manage a program or project to be first place amongst its competitors and similar efforts. Providing breakthrough insight by showing how to understand and use team member motivation, it gives leadership and team members the tools to be first place. It shows program and project managers how to motivate a team to perform better than its competitors while bringing great satisfaction and tailored growth to the team individuals. Highlights include: Selecting excellent task leads and determining the best team mix Fulfilling motivation needs during program and project execution Motivating high-tempo performance The very best performance of a program or project team occurs when the needs driving the fundamental motivations of team members are being met. This book explains how human motivation analysis substantiates the successful program and project, organizational and process elements that have been applied. By using the measure of providing promised deliverables within cost and schedule constraints and with managed risk, it describes team performance and explains the difference between a high-performance team and an average-performance one. It applies recent research of how motivation applies to programs and projects and how to accordingly organize a team. Beginning with an introduction of improvement concepts, this book reviews current program and project success statistics and then delves into how to reap the tremendous advantages of modern motivation-based organization leadership. It shows how to determine team member motivation and use it to assemble and execute a first-place program or project. Guidance includes showing how to assign the best mix of motivational types for each team and choosing leadership. Project and Program Excellence: Motivational Leadership for Breakthrough Results offers an organizational and leadership approach for highly successful development efforts.
  breakthrough leadership book: Frontrunner Bruce Smith, 2021-02-15 Effective leadership is a product of selflessness and sacrifice. I wrote this book to help leaders become better. Where you are just starting your journey, or you be on this course for a decade or more, after reading the Frontrunner, you'll become a more effective manager-and leader, Guaranteed! The Frontrunner's leadership strategies explore research areas and practical skills that encompass an individual, group, or organization's ability to lead, influence, or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations. Strong leadership skills will help you build confidence, influence cultures, and critical decisions. Frontrunner will help you improve as a leader, train others and increase leadership impact throughout your community. Frontrunner 365 provides feedback and insight on the fortes and positive aspects of the leader's actions and styles. This book is also a great resource and valuable complement to our Frontrunner 365 Executive and Business Seminars. They are customized to connect with people and achieve collaborative goals. Frontrunner 365 will accelerate your leadership goals, emotional intelligence and help you build a thriving organization. The Frontrunner materials ensure those strengths are explored and mastered, building a well-rounded and effective mentor to those surrounding them in the workplace.
  breakthrough leadership book: Spotlight Taylar M Allen, 2021-02-13 Spotlight takes you on a thought-provoking journey, starting in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to the United Kingdom. This bookdetails various cultures and leadership styles. Discover lessons from celebrities to the Leaders of the United Nations. I wholeheartedly believe that everyone should be informed and taught at an early age that Leadership is a life-long-duty. By equipping yourself with knowledge and discipline, you'll reach your goals that will lead to a legacy of greatness! Effective Leadership requires research and practical skills in a specific area. My mentor once said, opportunity is a circumstance that creates the enablement to improve or make a significant change. I agree. I wrote this book to help you define your single point of truth as a leader. As you navigate the chapters, you'll become more confident as a leader, and a SPOTLIGHT will begin to shine through life's dark challenges and provide you and others with a clear path forward. If your goal is to lead and inspire others, SPOTLIGHT will provide you with insights, pathways, tips, and strategies necessary to become the leader your desire. I strongly encourage you to buy this book for yourself and recommend it to all your friends and family members. By developing your skills as a leader, you will become more productive in your life, finances, career, and business.
  breakthrough leadership book: Breakthrough Leadership with Matt Sharpe Matt Sharpe, 2021-10-15
  breakthrough leadership book: Facilitating Breakthrough Adam Kahane, 2021-08-31 Making progress on complex, problematic situations requires a new approach to working together: transformative facilitation, a structured and creative process for removing the obstacles to fluid forward movement. It is becoming less straightforward for people to move forward together. They face increasing complexity and decreasing control. They need to work with more people from across more divides. In such situations, the most common ways of advancing—some people telling others what to do, or everyone just doing what they think they need to—aren’t adequate. One better way is through facilitating. But the most common approaches to facilitating—bossy vertical directing from above or collegial horizontal accompanying from alongside—aren’t adequate. They often leave the participants frustrated and yearning for breakthrough. This book describes a new approach: transformative facilitation. It doesn’t choose either the bossy vertical or the collegial horizontal approach: it cycles back and forth between them. Rather than forcing or cajoling, the facilitator removes the obstacles that stand in the way of people contributing and connecting equitably. It enables people to bring their whole selves to the process. This book is for anyone who helps people work together to transform their situation, be it a professional facilitator, manager, consultant, coach, chairperson, organizer, mediator, stakeholder, or friend. It offers a broad and bold vision of the contribution that facilitation can make to helping people collaborate to make progress.
  breakthrough leadership book: Breakthrough Dawn Darwin Weaks, 2022-07-26 Breakthrough: Trusting God for Big Change in Your Church encourages leaders of churches that are struggling and wondering if it's time to close the doors on God's work through them, their family, their church, or their ministry. This book is especially for those who have the audacity to dare to imagine where a new window might open as an old door is closing. Breakthrough reveals gritty, well-grounded hope around every corner.
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Breakthrough: Directed by Roxann Dawson. With Marcel Ruiz, Topher Grace, Sarah Constible, Dennis Haysbert. When her 14-year-old son …

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Breakthrough is a 2019 American Christian drama film directed by Roxann Dawson in her feature film directorial debut. [3] The film was …

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