AALL Aboard for Learning

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AALL Aboard for Learning

• 21st Century Leadership
• By
• Dr. Michael E. Tomlin
• AALL Regional Conference
• Winslow, AZ
• June 2, 2006

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Your plight is not new

• In the year 1314 Pope Clement V had the leaders
  of the Knights Templar burned at the stake.
• It seems each year that
• during the legislative
• sessions the same thing
• happens to adult
• educatorsand their programs.

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And in more recent times

• Rick Bragg tells the story
• Theres NCLB in a nutshell

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Todays leadership

• requires the finesse to connect with
  understanding about things we disagree with.

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Weve long lost our ability to debate
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In the 21st Century

• the political world is
• increasingly win-lose.

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This means

• Either
• We have to be willing to play win-lose, or
• We have to become increasingly skillful in our
  advocacy hence your current academy and learn
  to forge strategic and strange coalitions.

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We know that Knowledge constantly makes itself
obsolete, with the result that todays advanced
knowledge is tomorrows ignorance.

• And that The only competitive advantage of the
  developed countries is in the supply of knowledge
  workers.
• Peter Drucker, HBR, 1997, Sept-Oct.

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Knowledge workers thats our gig!
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So what are the 21st Century Leadership Skills?

• A lively intellectual curiosity.
• I want to know Gods thoughts.
• Albert Einstein

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• 2. A genuine interest in what other people think.
• Seek first to understand
• Dr. Stephen Covey

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• 3. A feeling of special responsibility for
  envisioning the future.
• I see America as that shining city on the hill.
• President Ronald Wilson Reagan

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• 4. A hunch that most risks are there to be taken.
• We choose to do these things
• John F. Kennedy

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• 5. A mind-set that crises are normal.
• Thats why we dont call it Mission Difficult,
  Mr. Hunt.
• MI 2

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• 6. A realization that paranoia and self-pity are
  reserved for people who dont want to be leaders.
• They already dont like you, get
  over it.
• Frosty Troy

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• 7. A sense of personal responsibility for the
  general outcome of your efforts.
• Nobody dies on my shift!
• Apollo 13

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• 8. A quality of unwarranted optimism.
• I have a dream that one day
• Dr. Martin Luther King

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21st Century Leadership?

• I think we already knew what it takes hopefully
  this refresher got you to thinking about it.
• Thanks to Harlan Cleveland, The Futurist, 2002

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Chaos, panic, disorder!

• AAAAALLLLL Aboard?
• Lets just do it!
• Thank you.
• Mike