Collaborative leadership defined |
"Excellent! Encore!"... "Very articulate; good visual images... " "Thank you!"... "a heated, passionate, emotionally charged issue and the awesome thing is it generated communication and audience participation. Wonderful"... "Best session so far."
Evaluation comments from participants in the Grant Makers/Grant Seekers Conference: Council of Michigan Foundations/Michigan Nonprofit Association |
"...does a superb job of describing collaborative leadership and 'relationship management' and lays out an agenda for how to develop such skills in teachers, school leaders, and others. Highly readable, Rubin's monograph can serve as a primer for those seeking a definition and understanding of collaborative leadership."
David G. Imig, former President and CEO
American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education
"A must read for nonprofit and government managers, educators, business leaders, community activists and all citizens concerned with effective solutions to public and organizational issues."
Dennis R. Young, Professor of Nonprofit Management & Economics,
Case Western University;
CEO of the National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise |
"Hank Rubin is at it again. (He has written)... a little volume with a potentially big payoff for thoughtful practitioners at the central office, in the principal's chair or in the classroom... (A) successful practitioner, community activist, teacher, theorist and collaborative leader himself... Rubin presents practical dimensions of collaborative leadership that stress the need to build, manage and maintain relationships with other leaders in our communities."
Peter Carparelli, Superintendent,
Teton County Schools, Jackson Hole, Wyoming,
in The School Administrator [American Association of School Administrators] |
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"...breaks new and important ground in the struggle for creating collaborations so that we can begin to build the villages once again."
Paul Houston, Executive Director
American Association of School Administrators
"...reminds me of my good pal Dr. Earnest Boyer... (with) that special forward-looking thinking of a great collaborative leader."
Robert J. Danzig,
Retired Senior Executive of Hearst Newspapers,
Author of The Leader Within You
"...how to recognize and develop collaborative skills, develop a shared vision, build community partnerships, and pool agendas to put the library first. Rubin wrote the book on this stuff."
Library Journal
"...The book you are holding is important, practical and timely. This book is a must read for any public leader. I challenge community leaders, educators at all levels, and political leaders to read this book..."
Congressman Danny K. Davis,
US House of Representatives,
7th District, Illinois |
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