Linking Superleadership and Distributed Leadership

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Linking Superleadership and Distributed Leadership

• School Counseling Leadership Institute
• July 2006

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WE ARE NOW IN THE MIDST OF ONE OF THEMOST
RAPID TRANSFORMATIVE MOMENTS IN ECONOMIC
HISTORY.
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• The global economy is in a seismic shift of
  unprecedented proportions, with power shifting to
  Asia.

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THE FIRST WAVE AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY

• Up until the 19th century agricultural economy
• Lived on farms and villages
• Performed activities
• Meaning is in subject/person

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THE SECOND WAVEFROM AGRICULTURE TO INDUSTRY

• INDUSTRIALIZATION
• URBANIZATION
• IMMIGRATION
• From ACTIVITY to JOB

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URBANIZATION

• ON OR ABOUT DECEMBER 1910,
• HUMAN NATURE CHANGED.
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  -VIRGINIA WOLF, 1938

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THE THIRD WAVEFROM INDUSTY TO INFORMATION

• INDUSTRIALIZATION ? DIGITALIZATION
• URBANIZATION ? GLOBALIZATION
• IMMIGRATION ? WORLD WORKERS

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ORGANIZATIONS

• DOWNSIZED
• FLATTENED
• RESTRUCTURED
• OUTSOURCED
• LEARNING

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THE THREE WAVES

• WORK PERSON MEANING
  
• ACTIVITIES CHARACTER RELIGION
• JOBS PERSONALITY SCIENCE
• ASSIGNMENTS/ IDENTITY LANGUAGE
• SKILLS
  
  

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• EMPLOYMENT
• NO LONGER DEPENDS ON MASTERING AN UNIFORM BODY
  OF KNOWLEDGE
• EMPLOYABILITY
• DEPENDS ON ABILITY TO LEARN AND THE SKILLS
  NEEDED TO DO THE TASKS

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JOBS STARTED BY WORKERS AT AGE 33-38, 39 ENDED
IN LESS THAN A YEAR.70 ENDED IN FEWER THAN
FIVE YEARS
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• Superleadership as an idea emerged in the context
  of business and broader economic situation, where
  the development of the each persons ability to
  maximize potential is important to the success of
  the company. If people arent developing skills,
  arent doing their job well, they can be fired.
• In order to stay competitive, business has
  realized that they have to develop the leadership
  skills of all adults in the system.

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Distributed Leadership

• Model of public school leadership where all the
  adults in the system participate in leadership
  functions and activities.
• But. Pilots, passengers, hijackers (Trish Hatch)

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• Distributed leadership as an idea emerged in the
  context of education, which is not a competitive
  economic environment. Education jobs are not
  being outsourced, and people are seldom fired.
  Maximal development of each adult in the system
  is not the goal of education in many schools.
• Education has not figured out that every adult in
  the system needs to be a leader in order to
  improve outcomes.