It is axiomatic that leaders affect
the success of organizations. However, the particular
attributes and behaviors of leaders have differential
effects across organizations with diverse governance
and organizational arrangements. New ways of governing
and organizing schools and school systems shape the
leadership environment, just as leaders shape organizations.
The characteristics typical of leaders (bringing others
to places they had not intended to go) are increasingly
being supplemented with characteristics associated
with entrepreneurs, e.g., identifying a problem, addressing
it with a compelling idea, and setting about its remedy
by creating and growing a business.
Researchers in the Center on Educational
Governance study the implications for leadership within
emerging and traditional school contexts. These include
comprehensive school reform, charter schools, educational
management organizations, and other innovative forms
of educational governance.
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