Educational leadership · 2006 · 30 citations · 3 references
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Leaders seeking change must abandon the fantasy that human organizations function as hierarchies— and recognize the reality of networks. Why is true change to the status quo in schools so elusive? Because the fundamental task of leaders catalyzing change in an organization is to transform what I call “islands of excellence” into true systemic change. And most leaders perform this important task the wrong way.
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