What they don't tell you in schools of education about school administration Book

	Preface	xi
	Acknowledgement	xiii
I	Power and the Context of School Administration
1	Power and Politics	3
	JFK, Stalin, Churchill, and Iacocca--Who Would Make It as a School Administrator?	7
	Ideas about Power: The Big "P" or Who Has It and Who Doesn't	8
	Power Plays, Politics, and Politicians	11
	The Zero Sum Game as Organizational Poker Playing	12
	Building Coalitions: The Chess Game	15
	Is School Administration for You?	17
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Power and Politics	20
2	Are You Ready to Play the Game?	23
	The Game, the Players, the Stakes, and the Rules	23
	The Nature of School Administration	24
	Winning, Losing, Winners, and Losers	25
	Jocks, Jive, and Jokers	29
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Playing the Game	32
3	Bureaucracies, Babus, and Baksheesh	35
	Vacuums, Inertia, and Administrivia	35
	Competency and Potency	38
	Rocking in the Boat vs Rocking the Boat	40
	Beating the System vs Being Beaten by the System	41
	Blunders and Business Acumen	44
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Bureaucracies, Babus, and Baksheesh	48
II	Connections
4	The Community	53
	The "Community" Is a Mirage	53
	Tapping the Power Bases of the Communities	54
	Spotting the People in Power--The Informal Network	55
	Using the Power Bases of a Community	60
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about the Community	61
5	The PTA	63
	What the PTA Is Not: Teachers and Men	63
	Gossip, "Gotchas," and Gripe Sessions	64
	Payoffs, Potholes, and Parsimony	65
	Virulence at the Secondary School	67
	And Virulence at the Elementary School	68
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about PTA's	71
6	The Staff	73
	The Staff vs the Faculty	73
	The Faculty: Superstars, Superchargers, Turkeys, Stool Pigeons, and Wimps	75
	Morale and Networking	82
	Pedagogues, Poker Games, and Privies: Faculty Room Dynamics	82
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about the Staff	83
7	The Media	85
	The Truth Never Gets in the Way of a Good Story	85
	Stroking the Press	87
	Developing a Media "Presence" That Sells	90
	Turning Bad News into Good News: Being Your Own Press Agent	91
	Two Sources of Information about the Schools You Should Know	92
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about the Media	93
8	Students	95
	The Pawns and the Powerful	95
	A Student-Centered Value System	96
	Students as a Power Group	98
	Students as Problems to Students as Solutions	102
	Pots, Pot, and Pets	103
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Students	105
III	The Career Ladder
9	Career Planning--The Legend of the "Chairs"	109
	The Legend and the Fraternity	109
	The Play Is the Thing--The Difference Between Scenery and the Players	111
	Getting the Position You Want: Two Strategies	115
	The Right People--Who Are They?	116
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Career Planning	118
10	Resumes, Headhunters, and Interviewing	119
	The Resume as Doublespeak	119
	On Bogus Degrees: Avoiding Dipscam	123
	Headhunters, Cannibals, and the OBN	124
	Interviewing Your Interviewers	126
	Leads: Dead Ends, Deadbeats, Detours, and Dividends	127
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Resumes, Headhunters, and Interviewing	128
11	Academics and Abecedarians	131
	The Ph.D. and Ed.D. or Initials Are Everything	135
	The Alphabet Jungle: Reading the Letterhead	137
	Picking the Right Place to Get Placed	137
	Professors as Partners	138
	Life in College Classrooms	138
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Acedemics and Abecedarians	139
IV	Getting the Job Done Right
12	The Job vs the Job Description	143
	What Makes Up a Job?	145
	Data, People, and Things	146
	Control vs Controls Over the Job	146
	Retrofitting the Job Description to the Job	147
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about the Job vs the Job Description	149
13	Ploys to Avoid	151
	Givers, Takers, and Flimflam Artists	151
	Memo Wars and Turf Battles	157
	Forcing Democracy on Dopes	160
	Your Title and You, When to Take It Seriously	164
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Ploys to Avoid	167
14	Hiring, Shifting, and Firing	169
	Where Loyalties Begin and End: Have Gun Will Travel	169
	The Proper Attitude	170
	The Subtleties of Staffing	171
	Hiring Good People or Hiring People Who Hire Good People	172
	Con Games in Letters of Reference	174
	Shifting Personnel: Keep Your Eyes on the Pea!	176
	Who Must Be Fired and Making It Stick	178
	Theory X and Theory Y	178
	Taking Your Lumps, the Dirty Work Is Part of the Job	185
	The Only Thing That Lasts	186
	Retrospective	186
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Hiring, Shifting, and Firing	187
15	The Emmetropia of Evaluation	189
	Growth vs Performance	189
	The Search for the One "Perfect" System	190
	Hard vs Soft Data	193
	Flattery Will Lose You a Grievance	196
	Facts Only Count for So Much	197
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Evaluation	200
16	Budget Skullduggery	201
	Budget Control and Hieroglyphics	201
	What Is a Budget?	201
	All Budgets Are Padded	202
	How Not to Be Caught with Your Padding Down	203
	The Telltale Evidence: The Sawdust on the Floor	204
	Controlling Costs	205
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Budget Skullduggery	207
17	Textbook Tyranny, Curriculum Chicanery, and Testing Insanity	209
	The Educational Mugwumps	209
	Putting It Together in the Schools	211
	Testing Insanity	214
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Textbook Tyranny, Curriculum Chicanery, and Testing Insanity	217
V	Adversaries and Friends
18	Secretaries and Custodians	221
	The "Shadow" Administrators: Secretaries Behind the Throne	221
	Secretaries as Mediators and Power Brokers	222
	Secretarial Sign Language Everybody Knows	225
	The Real Basics Are Always Custodial	226
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Secretaries and Custodians	228
19	Unions	231
	The Avon Lady Is Calling: Cosmetic vs Custodial Roles	231
	Union Tectics and Victims	233
	Living, Loving, and Laughing with Unions	234
	Grievances and Arbitration	235
	The Godfather: Understanding Union Leaders	237
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Unions	239
20	The Lunatic Fringe	241
	Prudes, Censors, Wackos, and Birchers	241
	The Last Crusade: The Religious Fanatics	244
	The Assassins--When the Bullets Are Real	247
	The Power of Humor	248
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about the Lunatic Fringe	249
21	Arch Rivals and Competitors	251
	Et tu Brutus? Knowing Who Wants Your Job	251
	Plots, Plotters, and Psychopaths	252
	Case Study: Stanley Friend's First Failure	254
	Motivation for Advancement	259
	Assistants	261
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Arch Rivals and Competitors	263
VI	Surviving
22	Knowing Who Is the Boss	267
	You Don't Work for Everyone: How to Tell Who Is the Boss	267
	Case Study: Todd Laker Knocks 'em Dead but Is Knocked Out	268
	All the President's Men: Are They Men?	273
	Does Your Boss Want Your Competence or Your Strokes?	274
	Who Is Your Boss's Boss and Who Cares?	275
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Knowing Who Is the Boss	277
23	Staying in Power and Staying Power	279
	Real Lessons from the Real World	287
	How to Survive Losing to The Turk: Getting Fired	289
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Staying in Power and Staying Power	291
24	Idealism vs Ideology	293
	Machiavelli and Don Quixote: The Odd Couple	293
	Is It Crass to Care?	294
	Dreams vs Pipe Dreams	295
	Guidelines for Success	296
	Your Own Guidelines	304
	Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Leaders and Leadership	306
	Notes	309
	Index	319
	Biographies	323
	To Our Readers	325