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[|Not business as usual] - 10 imperatives for turnaround leadership - By Dr. Christine Riordan See CoBiz article. Although this is a meant for business, here is what I got that could be applied to my job.
 * Changing environment, a lot of scrutiny, many different stakeholders and factors.
 * "Leaders often do not recognize that they may need to behave differently because of the environmental changes around them." - Notion that you have to adapt your behavior depending on situation and it may be outside of your normal behavior.
 * "Understand the business environment more clearly than ever before." - This means to me - Understand teaching and teachers; learning and students; and how the brain works; my organization, the people in it, their needs and what they need to help them be productive; charter schools/public schools; curriculum and assessments; public and other stakeholder issues and how to get them involved.
 * "Make decisions and act based on up-to-the-minute and in-depth knowledge of what is really going on in business today." - Make decisions based on the best data we have and not just opinions.
 * "...it is also a leader’s job to help others understand it is not business as usual."
 * "Be a strategic thinker and set your sights on a new future. Effective turnaround leaders are constantly identifying the challenges, threats and opportunities that exist in the environment."
 * I think most challenges can also be opportunities: Home school, on-line schools, why parents leave our school.
 * Focus on priorities. What will be the most important to success of organization?
 * Ensure everyone working toward same goals.
 * Monitoring details closely, execution toward goals, communicate where the organization is and the concerns, work at building morale.