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Recommended Reading
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
by Rosamond Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander
Harvard Business School Press, 2000
ISBN 0-87584-770-6At the recent State of the World Forum in New York, Ben Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, held his audience spellbound. He spoke of the role of conductor as one that could be autocratic, then proceeded to illustrate through anecdote, example, and audience participation how he empowers his students and orchestra members to be all they can be. He gave each of his listeners a copy of his new book, and I read it on the plane coming home. I love this book!
In The Art of Possibility, Zander and his wife, who is an artist and therapist, share many of their inspiring, creative strategies that can be utilized by educators in any subject to help their students to fall in love with learning and to become truly committed to doing their best. The book is filled with personal experiences and stories of personal and organizational change. It is fascinating reading and a book that will hold your interest just as though the Zanders were speaking to you personally.
They tell us, "You may have come to this book looking for solutions to some very real problems, or you may have opened it as an idle traveler passing through. Before long you must have realized that the book had no intention of solving your problems, or even of letting you browse. It was interested in providing you with tools for your transformation. From what to what? From a person who meets the challenges life serves up, to one who designs the stage on which her life plays out; from a single note to a long lone, from partial to full expression, from the I to the we."
We wish every teacher, principal, and school superintendent could read this book!
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