Nice Quotes from last Week's Reading

Ultimately, however, the proof leadership lies not in the words but in the actions; everything the leader may do, however casual, will be taken by staff as planned and meaningful (Latchem & Hanna, 2001a, p. 55)

Perspectives on leadership are coloured by many factors but, as our contributors remind us, most especially by assumptions deriving from the cultural lens through which we view the world (Latchem & Hanna, 2001b,p. 240)

Good leadership fosters change that is both transformative and sustainable. It can be concerned with moral or organizational matters. It can define the college’s role in the world beyond its walls, or it can determine their internal dynamics of the institution. Most importantly, it requires a worthy goal-vision, if you will -but it also requires persistence. (Ekman, 2003, p.2)

Early in the 21st century, the theory of transformative leadership has been consistently articulated as a form of leadership grounded in an activist agenda, one that combines a rights-based theory that every individual is entitled to be treated with dignity, respect, and absolute regard with a social justice theoryof ethics that takes these rights to a societal level (Shields, 2010, p. 571)

Complexity leadership theory also provides a pathway for respecting diversity, not only through its formal emphasis on heterogeneity, but also because cultural respect is much easier to cultivate through one-on-one interactions than it is to consistently enact through one-to-many leadership exchanges.

(Lichtenstein, Uhl-Bien, Marion, Seers, Orton, & Schreiber, 2006, p. 8-9)

References:
Eckman, R. (2003). Standing up when it matters. Council for Independent Colleges Newsletter, .

Lichtenstein, B. B., Uhl-Bien, M., Marion, R., Seers, A., Orton, J. D., & Schreiber, C. (2006). Complexity leadership theory: An interactive perspective on leading in complex adaptive systems. Management Department Faculty Publications 8

Latchem, C., & Hanna, D.E. (2001a). Leadership in open and flexible learning. In C. Latchem and D.E. Hanna (Eds.) Leadership for 21st Century Learning. Global perspectives from educational innovators (pp. 53-62) New York: Routledge.

Latchem, C., & Hanna, D.E. (2001b). Lessons for the future. In C. Latchem and D.E. Hanna (Eds.) Leadership for 21st Century Learning. Global perspectives from educational innovators (pp. 235-240) New York: Routledge.

Shields, C. M. (2010).Transformative leadership: Working for equity in diverse contexts, Educational Administration Quarterly, 46, 558-589.