Contents: The Principles of leadership: ''Give me a lever long enough ... and single-handed I can move the world'' -- The Nature of leadership -- Level 5 leadership -- The Unheroic side of leadership: notes from from the swamp -- The Five practices of exemplary leadership -- Moral leadership: Leadership as stewardship: ''who's serving who?'' -- An Educational credo for a time of crisis and urgency -- Becoming a trustworthy leader -- The Manager as politician -- The Authentic leader -- Culture and change: Culture in question -- Understanding change -- Transformation school leadership in a transactional policy world -- Eight roles of symbolic leaders -- Risk -- Standards and systems: Understanding the normative system -- Power standards: how leaders add value to state and national standards -- Standards for school leaders -- Diversity and leadership: Making differences matter: a new paradigm for managing diversity -- Teaching all students: celebrating diverse minds -- Gender and race as factors in educational leadership and administration -- Gender and supervision -- The Future of leadership: The Work of principals and their preparation: addressing critical needs for the twenty-first century -- Teacher leadership: ideology and practice -- Lasting leadership: a study of high leadership capacity schools -- Resourcefulness: restraints and renewal.