Leadership & Organizational Learning

Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership

Applying a cognitive lens to leadership, Howard Gardner identifies crucial but hitherto neglected components: the mind of the leader and the minds of his or her followers. Effective leaders create new stories that wrestle successfully with stories that already populate the minds of their followers. Gardner imposes his highly original framework on a wide spectrum of leaders that ranges from political, business, and military leaders to those individuals who provide leadership in the arts, sciences, and professions. ISBN: 978-0465027736

Changing Minds: The Art And Science of Changing Our Own And Other People's Minds

Gardner offers insight into the phenomenon of changing minds: why is it so mysterious? How do people become set in a certain way of thinking? And what does it take to change a perspective? Gardner identifies seven levers that aid or thwart the process of mind change. ISBN-13: 978-1422103296

King Arthur's Round Table: How Collaborative Conversations Create Smart Organizations

Your organization functions and grows through conversations, face-to-face and electronic, from the mailroom to the boardroom. The quality of those conversations determines how smart your organization is. This insightful book shows how the Round Table of Arthurian legend can help foster collaboration and transform today;s world of business, nonprofits, and government. ISBN: 978-0-471-23772-3

The Evidence Process: A Collaborative Approach to Understanding and Improving Teaching...

The Evidence Process: A Collaborative Approach to Understanding and Improving Teaching and Learning, 2001. A handbook for administrators, staff developers, and teachers interested in, or already involved in, looking at student work collaboratively with colleagues. It describes and provides resources for an inquiry process developed by Project Zero working with public elementary and middle schools in Massachusetts.