 Leadership & Sustainability: System Thinkers in Actionreviewed by Michael V. McGill - 2006  Title: Leadership & Sustainability: System Thinkers in ActionAuthor(s): Michael Fullan Publisher: Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks ISBN: 141290496X, Pages: 136, Year: 2004 Search for book at Amazon.com Those who want to improve schools are apt to look for guidance to Michael Fullan, the well-known and influential popularizer of organizational theory. I say “popularizer” respectfully; Fullan himself describes his latest contribution, Leadership & Sustainability, as a pragmatic aid for the “new theoreticians” who work in schools, school districts and state governments (p. 19). His goal? “To pave the way for more sustainable school change as theory transforms into practice.” According to Fullan, “sustainability” is a characteristic of developed institutions, the property of improving continuously in a way consistent with deep human values. Leadership is both a discourse on and an inquiry into how sustainability comes to be. In particular, he’s interested in how leaders help organizations grow and how they themselves grow from those systems. The language of the volume is generally amiable (if sometimes tech-y). But the message is not calculated to comfort the comfortable. Any number of American politicians,... (preview truncated at 150 words.) To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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