This book is different. LeaderShift 2020 offers a perspective that few can provide. It's born out of a total of more than 100 years of practical educational leadership experience across our writing team. These in-the-trenches experiences have immersed us in every role and responsibility-from teacher to supervisor, to building principal, to district level administrator, to state-level administrator, to a university professor, to consultant and more. Collectively, our writing team has authored nearly 20 books; delivered thousands of keynotes; developed and implemented tens of thousands of workshops; consulted for thousands of schools, districts, ministries, DOEs, and corporations around the globe; led numerous state- and consortium-based ground-breaking projects; developed and directed various undergraduate and graduate courses and programs; and conducted too many research studies to count. The synthesis of our experiences and research-both formal and informal-has enabled us to identify what we believe to be the essentials of modern learning organizations....
