COMPREHENSIVE TREATISE ON INSPIRATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND EFFECTIVE SCHOOL MANAGEMENT

Comprehensive Treatise on Inspirational Leadership and Effective School Management is a well researched and professionally written book that is set to revolutionize the way schools are managed. It is set to give school leaders a fresh perspective on how to confront the myriad of challenges that they face on a daily basis. Indeed, what this author has done is quite unprecedented: For the past five years, he has been involved in a painstaking research designed to come up with a comprehensive book on leadership and management at a school level. A careful perusal of the inside pages of this great book reveals the unmistakable fact that the author has largely succeeded in coming up with a book that contains practically every topic that school leaders and other educators need in order to transform their schools into epitomes of academic excellence.
The book contains 38 chapters and is divided into two parts: INSPIRATIONAL LEADERSHIP and EFFECTIVE SCHOOL MANAGEMENT. It is the authors considered opinion that effective school leaders need to balance two competing hemispheres: Leadership and Management. Otherwise, if you engage in too much managing whilst neglecting your leadership responsibilities, the school will suffer from structural weaknesses associated with lack of a clear-cut vision, lack of strategic thinking and worse, a dispirited, directionless and de-motivated staff.
On the other hand, if as a school leader you become too obsessed with leadership: always thinking strategically, always talking big about the compelling vision which you have for the school- but at the same time you neglect the nitty-gritty issues of management such as checking syllabus coverage, visiting the classrooms and checking students work, observing student behavior, managing conflicts and supervising all aspects of the school routine etc, then the only direction that your school will take will be, obviously, a downward spiral of underachievement.
The writer, a former Principal in a leading Secondary school, is an acclaimed writer with more than five titles under his belt. His first book, How to Become a Top Student: Discover the Diamond in Yourself, is the fastest selling student motivational book in Kenya and has sold over 30,000 copies in less than three years that it has been in the market. The writer is also a motivational speaker, a life coach, an educational consultant, a researcher and most importantly, a lover of knowledge. He is currently the CEO of Creative Minds Consultants, a firm that specializes in offering tailored professional development training for learning institutions, motivational talks, educational consultancy services and most importantly, the publication of management and inspirational books.