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Effective managers and professionals in all walks of life have to become skilled in the art of "reading" the situations they are attempting to organize or manage. Ways in which individuals can develop the art of reading and understanding organizational life are presented in this book. It focuses on the premise that all theories of…

This booklet describes the rationale, design, and structure for conferences organized for school principals. Drawing on the experiences of New York City's Community School District 2, it describes standards-based professional development for school leaders. It opens with a description of the District Network for Standards-Based Reform--a project…

Examines the different patterns of leadership behavior from which a manager can choose in relating with nonmanagers. Suggests a framework for managers caught in the dilemma of when to exert strong'' leadership and when to exercise permissive'' leadership. (WM)

Describes the experiences of California's first and only noneducator superintendent. (JF)

Examines decisionmaking conflicts between professional and bureaucratic subsystems in colleges and universities. (Author)

Codification of basic conditions of administrative freedom in a modern university setting. (Editor)

A statement formulated by educational administrators, trustees and foundation officers at the American Council on Education, Chicago, Illinois, April 4-5, 1969.

The article provides some hints from industry on how to be a good manager, focusing on defining and meeting various levels of objectives, improving an organization, identifying attitudes useful in successful management, and assigning and developing managers by paying attention to their personal strengths. (SB)

Leadership repertoires of public school superintendents are analyzed in terms of the Humanistic Leadership Model. Factor analysis was used to uncover four leadership dimensions. (Author/RL)

Volunteers have needs, abilities, and desires of their own. The skilled and caring extension agent will use management and supervision principles to fully use all of those needs and abilities. (LRA)

Compares the common but unsuccessful management method of "management by crisis" to the principles and results of sound management practice, in an attempt to enable crisis managers to recognize and overcome their mistakes. (Author/JG)

This paper describes how various formal planning approaches were developed and applied at Pennsylvania State University. Phases (horizontal reduction, vertical reallocation, strategic planning, and strategic management) are identified as are principles including planning for change on the margins and continuity, providing for feedback, and…

A veteran superintendent outlines an eight-step method for achieving success, including assessing the situation, avoiding board overload, coping with stress, deemphasizing egoism, learning to live in the gray zone between policy formation and administration, ensuring effective board decisions, identifying prospective board members, and knowing…