Dr. Robert Brower is superintendent for the North Montgomery Community School Corporation in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Besides these duties, Dr. Brower is a consultant and presenter for many educational issues. Some of these include trimester scheduling, discipline in schools, teaching on the extended period, leadership topics, decision-making philosophy, building professional staff capacity, and teaching for learning. Dr. Brower has also published articles in numerous professional journals on these topics. Dr. Brower is recognized nationally as an expert on trimester scheduling for both middle schools and high schools. He and Dr. Brad Balch invented the Transformational Leadership theory presented in this book. Dr. Brower is an entertaining presenter who mixes research with common sense. Dr. Brower's educational career has included teaching and coaching for twenty-two years, six years as a high school principal, and four years as a public school superintendent. This is Dr. Brower's first book but several more are in the works.
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Introduction
2. Decision-Making Pedagogy: A Leadership Essential
3. Overcoming Internal Obstacles to Decision Making
4. Overcoming External Barriers to Decision Making
5. Aligning Decision Making to the Leader¿s Mission
6. Understanding How Human Nature Affects Decision Making
7. Defining Relationships With Respect and Rapport
8. Entrust: The Value of Empowerment and Delegation
9. Creating Motivating Capacities for the Common Good
10. The Influence of Capitalism on Decision Making
11. Refining and Rethinking Change in Education
12. Facing the Challenges of Leadership
13. Leadership for the Common Good: The Essential Imperative
Resource: Decision Making Self-Assessment
Bibliography
Index
