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Learning as a Way of Leading: Lessons from the Struggle for Social Justice (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education)

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Learning IS a way of leading

By CrowbarJoe - January 13, 2013

In Learning as a Way of Leading, Brookfield and Presskill provide a powerful model for an emerging approach to leadership. They provide specific and detailed examples of leaders in the United States who have accomplished critical, essential goals by appealing to the best in us. In most instances, these leaders have achieved their goals despite a serious lack of financial or official political resources. And the approach is not a miracle, but a model. In a country in which the political structure seems increasingly to fail the majority of citizens, this book, and the skills it describes, provide a way forward.

We Need This Book

By Jennie Pearce - April 27, 2012

In contrast to most books on leadership I've read that focus mainly on white male business or military leaders, LEARNING AS A WAY OF LEADING makes a real contribution by exploring ONLY leaders in social justice movements. The authors examine a diverse group of movement intellectuals (including Cesar Chavez, Nelson Mandela, Ella Baker, Paul Robeson, Jane Addams, and Septima Clark) to investigate how they put learning at the heart of their work. I could quibble with the selection and would have preferred to have had some more recent examples included, but the book's central message - that being a change agent sort of leader means you've got to do a lot of continuous learning - is one I support. I've read quite a few books on leadership but never found one that views supporting the learning of others as the most important work leaders do. This book is also written well. It zips along and if the authors are sometimes too uncritical about their chosen movement leaders, you forgive... read more

lead and lead with force and confidence from the ages with this book.

By -- "cholo" - December 2, 2011

this book is a wonderful experience to live through as the history of the civil rights movement is examined to help leaders today find ways to overcome struggle in the workplace and in organizations, especially in schools.

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