School Leadership Management

Do you need to make health care decisions for an aging parent but are unsure where to start? Are you at crossroads in your career and don’t know how to move forward? Have you ever been on a jury trying to understand confusing legal instructions? How to Think Like a Lawyer has the answers to help you cut through the confusion and gain an advantage in your everyday life. Kim Wehle identifies the details you need to pay attention to, the questions you should ask, the responses you should anticipate, and the pitfalls you can avoid.

You can have a satisfying career. Are you a school principal who is completely fed up with conflicting priorities and misalignment in our nation’s schools? It’s no surprise you feel overwhelmed and exhausted. Every day, you deal with federal and state regulations, district policies, and parental pressures. The expectations on educators are higher than ever, tempting many principals to consider alternate livelihoods. How amazing would it feel to take control of your own career and make decisions from a place of empowerment and clarity? Listen to find out more.

One L, Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school and a best seller when it was first published in 1977, has gone on to become a virtual bible for prospective law students. Not only does it introduce with remarkable clarity the ideas and issues that are the stuff of legal education; it also brings alive the anxiety and competitiveness, with others and, even more, with oneself, that set the tone in this crucible of character building.

In Beer School, authors and entrepreneurs Steve Hindy and Tom Potter share the improbable saga of Brooklyn Brewery, the company they grew from a home-brew hobby into a multimillion-dollar business - all in the most competitive beer market in the United States. If you have a thirst for entrepreneurial success, drink up. If you are a business manager or owner and want fresh ideas and insight, tap in. You'll learn entrepreneurial basics, plus some things textbooks don't teach you, as you follow the company's successes (and a few failures).

Beyond the Game: Strategies for Coaches to Navigate Parental Dynamics in High School Sports by James Roden, M.Ed., MBA, M.Sc. In the high-stakes world of high school sports, the dynamic between coaches, athletes, and parents can often be as complex and challenging as the games themselves. James Roden, with his extensive background in education and coaching, brings forth a comprehensive guide in "Beyond the Game", addressing the critical aspects of parental involvement in high school athletics. Drawing from years of experience as the head football coach in Texas, Roden combines insights from...

How you create a legendary school starting tomorrow. Have you ever wondered, why didn’t they teach me about this in school?

Andrae captures insight and pearls of wisdom from the military’s most senior leaders, calling them Procedures, Techniques, and Rules. These strategies, if applied with discipline, can provide efficiency to your day-to-day routine and increase your overall well-being. Procedures, Techniques, Rules... I Wish I Learned in School is a resource tool that offers bottom-line instructions on a range of habits that have proved beneficial to our nation’s leading authorities. Andrae has taken his experiences from sitting down to talk with leaders, such as former Secretary of Defense, Donald ...

Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know - such as the brain's need for physical activity to work at its best. How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget - and so important to repeat new information? Is it true that men and women have different brains?

Does the mere thought of speaking in front of an audience give you goosebumps, butterflies, and heart palpitations? If you want to overcome all of these, then you need this book in your life. For a lot of people, public speaking is a terrifying thing. Preparing to speak is the easy part. You either familiarize yourself with the topic, create cue cards to help you remember the things you need to talk about, or in some cases, memorize your speech. But when it's time to step up onto the stage and face the crowd, that's when the real challenge begins.

"MBA ASAP is outstanding. John covers the foundations of sales, marketing, negotiation, strategy, and much more in the book. Additionally, he simplifies complex subjects so that anyone can grasp them." Sebastian R Cousins provides a comprehensive overview of business principles and practices. It’s a must-read for anyone looking to start their own business or advance their career in the business world. Business schools don't develop true leaders. Instead, they create themselves by acquiring the information, abilities, and experiences necessary for success. By reading this book, you can ...

El mundo se aceleró y se volvió incierto, complejo y volátil. Y fue este mundo disruptivo el que me reveló la fragilidad de las escuelas de negocios. Yo fui víctima de las incapacidades de esas escuelas. Después de haberme graduado de dos carreras, e incluso estar en proceso de estudiar un par de maestrías, no lograba que mi negocio despegara. Estuve metido en un "negocio pendejo" - como suelo llamarlo -, hasta que encontré la salida. Me tomó diez años desaprender fórmulas equivocadas de la vieja escuela.

Empower Your Leadership Journey in Education Are you ready to advance your career from the classroom to the superintendent's office? From Classroom to Superintendent is your comprehensive guide to navigating the complexities of education leadership. Authored by Dr. Christophor J. Galloway, a seasoned educator, former superintendent, and current superintendent executive coach, this book blends real-world insights with practical strategies to help you excel at every stage of your leadership journey. Discover how to: Build a solid foundation of classroom leadership. Transition effectively into...

Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues, they get an award. If not, they can be fired. Uber presents exhausted drivers with challenges to keep them driving. China scores its citizens so they behave well, and games with in-app purchases use achievements to empty your wallet. Points, badges, and leaderboards are creeping into every aspect of modern life. Game designer Adrian Hon delivers a blistering takedown of how corporations, schools, and governments use games and gamification as tools for profit and coercion.

This audiobook is a compilation of my experiences as a school leader. Enjoy the stories, tips, and strategies to handle all that comes your way in your position of leadership. Take it and use it as your own! Survive and thrive and do the best you can for your students and staff!

Future Wealth is an indispensable guide for how to work, earn, spend, save, and manage our businesses. Listen carefully - and start creating your future wealth today.

When John U. Bacon played for the Ann Arbor Huron High School River Rats, he never scored a goal. Yet somehow, years later he found himself leading his alma mater’s downtrodden program. How bad? The team hadn’t won a game in over a year, making them the nation’s worst squad. With almost everyone expecting more failure, Bacon made it special to play for Huron by making it hard, which inspired the players to excel. Then he defied conventional wisdom again by putting the players in charge of team discipline, goal-setting, and even decision-making—and it worked.

Whether you're discussing the terms of a high-stakes deal, forming a key partnership, asking for a raise, or planning a family event, negotiating can be stressful. One person makes a demand, the other concedes a point. In the end, you settle on a subpar solution in the middle—if you come to any agreement at all. But these discussions don't need to be win-or-lose situations. Written by negotiation expert Jeff Weiss, the HBR Guide to Negotiating provides a disciplined approach to finding a solution that works for everyone involved.

The authors of the best-selling Competing on Internet Time (a Businessweek top-10 book) analyze the strategies, principles, and skills of three of the most successful and influential figures in business - Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs - offering lessons for all managers and entrepreneurs on leadership, strategy, and execution.

50 Things to Know About Being a Middle School English Teacher by author Dwayne Vega offers an approach to adjusting your English classroom. Most books on language arts instruction tell you to adopt theoretical and unproven suggestions. In this book, you'll discover how to get your students or children to view writing more positively. This book will help you understand what is going on with middle school students and help you craft lessons to address those changes.

Any group of people expected to work synergistically needs a system that structures their interactions. That system is “governance.” The Pragmatist’s Guide to Governance takes a first principles approach to exploring the ways governance structures affect the humans living under them (and vice versa), with a special focus on how human psychology interacts with the structures that facilitate our interaction with other people.