Accelerated wisdom : 50 practical insights for today's superintendent / Howard C. Carlson.

Includes bibliographical references.

Keeping track -- Calendar cards -- Composition books -- Digital archives -- Email management -- Organizing your day -- Organizational checklists -- How to navigate requests, concerns, questions, and new proposals -- Responding to verbal requests or concerns -- Researching before reacting -- Pre-plan spontaneous responses -- Generalities versus specifics -- Responding to questions during public meetings -- Responding to the media -- Reacting to new proposals and ideas -- Promoting ideas, concepts, and organizational changes -- The change continuum: hard, harder, hardest -- Hiring, supervising, and mentoring employees -- Technical competence versus personality and character -- Minoring in the majors -- Circuit training (administrator induction) -- Establishing new or redefined expectations -- Expectation clarity and communication for administrators -- Superintendent/administrative assistant team -- Supervisory continuum -- Interview questions which reveal core beliefs -- Leadership and decision making -- Decisions : i make, i confer, i delegate -- Leadership is gray -- Tyranny of the urgent -- Organizational virus -- The blunt realities of leadership -- Tight-loose leadership -- Root cause analysis -- Politics, legislative influence, and local campaigns -- Develop a district profile -- Getting to know your legislators -- Becoming a key legislative constituent -- Local politics -- Policy versus politics -- Levies, bonds, and overrides -- Mastering school board relationships -- Meaningful board interaction -- Board guidance on handling complaints -- The board operating protocol -- Responding to board member requests -- The friday update -- New board member orientation -- Board retreats -- Living the superintendency -- Scenarios -- Entry plans -- Potholes and pitfalls -- Superintendent mentorship -- Life balance and health -- Knowing when to leave -- Branding your district.