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The Wounded Leader: How Real Leadership Emerges in Times of Crisis
by Richard H. Ackerman and Pat Maslin-Ostrowski
Jossey-Bass, 2002
ISBN: 0-7879-6110Richard Ackerman is Co-director of the International Network of Principals/Centers and Professor of Education at the University of Massachussetts/Lowell, and Pat Masin-Ostrowski is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Florida Atlantic University. Their book is the result of gathering many personal stories from leaders who cope with, respond to, and learn from significant dilemmas and crises in their practice.
The authors have framed their book around two interrelated questions:
"• How does a reasonable, well-intentioned person, who happens to be a school leader, preserve a healthy and real sense of self in the face of a host of factors challenging the self in the best scenario, and leading to a wounding crisis in the worst?
• What perspectives towards the work of leadership might fortify the impact of these challenges, and produce a mind-set that leaves the person open to learn and grow from such experience?"Built around authentic personal experiences of leaders the authors have come to the understanding that:
(1) leadership roles often do not support, confirm, or resonate with the psychic needs of the person who becomes a leader.
(2) Wounding is an inevitable part of leadership.
(3) Woundedness is a double-edged (at least) sword.A wonld has the potential to be a catalyst for the leader to grow or to be enmeshed in crisis. These are stories to grow on!
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