Leading Change

Tony Fontana & Jane Shirley

To achieve dramatically different results, we need leaders who can optimize the current state while building the capacity of the organization to find new and better solutions.

Leading Change

"We cannot solve our current problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

Strategyvs

Strategic Planning

How do you plan when you don’t know the future?

Fix something• Create something

Shared Vision

Alignment vs

Consensus

Coherence vs

Whack-A-Mole

A New Kind of Leader

Able to unleash the creativity and harness the power of the team.

PURPOSEWhy We Exist

RULES OF ENGAGEMENT

How we interact with each other and think about

problems

SHARED VALUESWhat we agree is important

Transformational Results

The ability to generate ideas

through discourse and debate

The ability to test and experiment

through prototyping,

reflection and revision

The ability to combine disparate or even opposing

ideas into new solutions

Imagine what our schools can accomplish if leaders are able to unleash and harness the collective talents and wisdom of all of their people to produce breakthrough innovations again and again.