Bounce Forward

The Extraordinary Resilience of Leadership
Eileen T. Allison-Napolitano
Bounce Forward
February 2014 | 208 pages | Corwin
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Turn adversity from fearsome foe to welcome friend.

Ordinary resilience is not enough to inspire teams to greatness. Effective leaders must welcome adversity and harness it for positive change that creates results and makes life and work more joyful.

Follow stories of successful educators to discover how to harness the power of leadership resiliency in education. Find out why it matters and how you can be a catalyst for bouncing forward in your own environment. Drawing on the latest research from organizational psychology and her experiences as a transformational leadership coach, Elle Allison Napolitano helps readers by:

  • Defining leadership resiliency
  • Explaining how leadership resiliency applies in educational leadership
  • Showing you how to find it in yourself
  • Outlining steps to make your leadership resilience visible
  • Providing a rubric to gauge the resiliency of your organization

Bounce forward from adversity to lead a successful learning organization that can face new challenges and build for the future.



“Bounce Forward is a wonderful book that is at once as realistic as it is inspiring. Read it and it will take you deeper into your life, past, present and future. It will bring you tears, but ultimately it will put a fresh bounce in your step.”
—From the Foreword by Michael Fullan

“Leadership resilience is the linchpin of 21st century leadership survival and success.  Allison-Napolitano’s book is an insightful guide to resilience and is a MUST read for today's leaders and aspiring leaders.”
—Anita Johnson, Executive Director
National Center for Education, Research and Technology (NCERT)

Contents

Foreword by Michael Fullan

Foreword by Michael Fullan

Preface

  • A Focus on Leadership Resilience
  • Orientation to This Book
  • Follow-Up

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Author

Introduction

  • Life Is Hard
  • Learning Resilience
  • Sustaining Your Practice of Leadership Resilience
  • Be a Good Soul

Part I. The Exceptional Nature of Leadership Resilience

  • Chapter 1. Bounce Forward
  • The Outcomes of Leadership Resilience
  • Ordinary Resilience
  • Leadership Resilience
  • The Requirements of Leadership: What Makes Leadership Resilience More Challenging
  • The Stresses of Educational Leadership: Neither Rare Nor Unusual
  • Moving on to Chapter 2: A Model of Leadership Resilience
  • Chapter 2. A Model of Leadership Resilience
  • The Leadership Resilience Model
  • Key Assumptions of the Leadership Resilience Model
  • Benefits of the Leadership Resilience Model
  • Using the Model: A Disciplined Practice

Part II. Enabling Capacities of Leadership Resilience

  • Chapter 3. Relationships: Surround Yourself With Good Souls
  • A Relationship Inventory
  • How Relationships Make Us Resilient
  • Who Are Your Wilsons?
  • Beware of Non-Resilient Individuals
  • Cultivating the Leadership Resilience-Enabler "Relationships"
  • Resilience as a Social Identity
  • Be a Good Soul
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
  • Chapter 4. Resonance
  • A Resonance Inventory
  • A Force Field of Positive Energy
  • How Resonance Enables Resilience
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
  • Chapter 5. Renewal
  • A Renewal Inventory
  • How Renewal Enables Leadership Resilience
  • Renewal, Creativity, and Problem Solving
  • On-the-Job Renewal
  • Cultivating Renewal to Enable Resilience
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams

Part III. Leadership Resilience in Action

  • Introduction to Part III: Leadership Resilience in Action
  • Chapter 6. Stay Calm
  • First Do Nothing
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
  • Chapter 7. Carry On
  • Carry On
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
  • Chapter 8. Accept the New Reality
  • Adjust Your Perspective
  • Resist Nostalgia
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
  • Chapter 9. Want Something More
  • Want Something More
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
  • Chapter 10. Instigate Adaptive Action
  • Instigate Adaptive Action
  • Defining Moments and Wise Decisions
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
  • Chapter 11. Reflect & Celebrate
  • Personal Reflection and Celebration
  • Pathways to Personal and Organizational Reflection and Celebration
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams

Part IV. Leading Organizational Resilience

  • Chapter 12. Organizational Resilience Risks and Opportunities
  • Becoming a Resilient Organization
  • The Resilience Risk Rubric: A Tool to Introduce Innovative Disruption
  • The Resilience Risk Rubric
  • Chapter 13. A Final Word: Forgive Yourself Every Day

Appendix: Films, Music, and Literature to Conjure Up Ideas About Leadership Resilience

  • Films
  • Music
  • Literature and Poetry

References

References

Index

Index

Resources

Description

Turn adversity from fearsome foe to welcome friend.

Ordinary resilience is not enough to inspire teams to greatness. Effective leaders must welcome adversity and harness it for positive change that creates results and makes life and work more joyful.

Follow stories of successful educators to discover how to harness the power of leadership resiliency in education. Find out why it matters and how you can be a catalyst for bouncing forward in your own environment. Drawing on the latest research from organizational psychology and her experiences as a transformational leadership coach, Elle Allison Napolitano helps readers by:

  • Defining leadership resiliency
  • Explaining how leadership resiliency applies in educational leadership
  • Showing you how to find it in yourself
  • Outlining steps to make your leadership resilience visible
  • Providing a rubric to gauge the resiliency of your organization

Bounce forward from adversity to lead a successful learning organization that can face new challenges and build for the future.



“Bounce Forward is a wonderful book that is at once as realistic as it is inspiring. Read it and it will take you deeper into your life, past, present and future. It will bring you tears, but ultimately it will put a fresh bounce in your step.”
—From the Foreword by Michael Fullan

“Leadership resilience is the linchpin of 21st century leadership survival and success.  Allison-Napolitano’s book is an insightful guide to resilience and is a MUST read for today's leaders and aspiring leaders.”
—Anita Johnson, Executive Director
National Center for Education, Research and Technology (NCERT)

Contents

Foreword by Michael Fullan

Foreword by Michael Fullan

Preface

  • A Focus on Leadership Resilience
  • Orientation to This Book
  • Follow-Up

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Author

Introduction

  • Life Is Hard
  • Learning Resilience
  • Sustaining Your Practice of Leadership Resilience
  • Be a Good Soul

Part I. The Exceptional Nature of Leadership Resilience

  • Chapter 1. Bounce Forward
  • The Outcomes of Leadership Resilience
  • Ordinary Resilience
  • Leadership Resilience
  • The Requirements of Leadership: What Makes Leadership Resilience More Challenging
  • The Stresses of Educational Leadership: Neither Rare Nor Unusual
  • Moving on to Chapter 2: A Model of Leadership Resilience
  • Chapter 2. A Model of Leadership Resilience
  • The Leadership Resilience Model
  • Key Assumptions of the Leadership Resilience Model
  • Benefits of the Leadership Resilience Model
  • Using the Model: A Disciplined Practice

Part II. Enabling Capacities of Leadership Resilience

  • Chapter 3. Relationships: Surround Yourself With Good Souls
  • A Relationship Inventory
  • How Relationships Make Us Resilient
  • Who Are Your Wilsons?
  • Beware of Non-Resilient Individuals
  • Cultivating the Leadership Resilience-Enabler "Relationships"
  • Resilience as a Social Identity
  • Be a Good Soul
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
  • Chapter 4. Resonance
  • A Resonance Inventory
  • A Force Field of Positive Energy
  • How Resonance Enables Resilience
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
  • Chapter 5. Renewal
  • A Renewal Inventory
  • How Renewal Enables Leadership Resilience
  • Renewal, Creativity, and Problem Solving
  • On-the-Job Renewal
  • Cultivating Renewal to Enable Resilience
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams

Part III. Leadership Resilience in Action

  • Introduction to Part III: Leadership Resilience in Action
  • Chapter 6. Stay Calm
  • First Do Nothing
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
  • Chapter 7. Carry On
  • Carry On
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
  • Chapter 8. Accept the New Reality
  • Adjust Your Perspective
  • Resist Nostalgia
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
  • Chapter 9. Want Something More
  • Want Something More
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
  • Chapter 10. Instigate Adaptive Action
  • Instigate Adaptive Action
  • Defining Moments and Wise Decisions
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
  • Chapter 11. Reflect & Celebrate
  • Personal Reflection and Celebration
  • Pathways to Personal and Organizational Reflection and Celebration
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams

Part IV. Leading Organizational Resilience

  • Chapter 12. Organizational Resilience Risks and Opportunities
  • Becoming a Resilient Organization
  • The Resilience Risk Rubric: A Tool to Introduce Innovative Disruption
  • The Resilience Risk Rubric
  • Chapter 13. A Final Word: Forgive Yourself Every Day

Appendix: Films, Music, and Literature to Conjure Up Ideas About Leadership Resilience

  • Films
  • Music
  • Literature and Poetry

References

References

Index

Index

Resources

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Turn adversity from fearsome foe to welcome friend.

Ordinary resilience is not enough to inspire teams to greatness. Effective leaders must welcome adversity and harness it for positive change that creates results and makes life and work more joyful.

Follow stories of successful educators to discover how to harness the power of leadership resiliency in education. Find out why it matters and how you can be a catalyst for bouncing forward in your own environment. Drawing on the latest research from organizational psychology and her experiences as a transformational leadership coach, Elle Allison Napolitano helps readers by:

  • Defining leadership resiliency
  • Explaining how leadership resiliency applies in educational leadership
  • Showing you how to find it in yourself
  • Outlining steps to make your leadership resilience visible
  • Providing a rubric to gauge the resiliency of your organization

Bounce forward from adversity to lead a successful learning organization that can face new challenges and build for the future.



“Bounce Forward is a wonderful book that is at once as realistic as it is inspiring. Read it and it will take you deeper into your life, past, present and future. It will bring you tears, but ultimately it will put a fresh bounce in your step.”
—From the Foreword by Michael Fullan

“Leadership resilience is the linchpin of 21st century leadership survival and success.  Allison-Napolitano’s book is an insightful guide to resilience and is a MUST read for today's leaders and aspiring leaders.”
—Anita Johnson, Executive Director
National Center for Education, Research and Technology (NCERT)


Table Of Contents:

  • Foreword by Michael Fullan
  • Preface
  • A Focus on Leadership Resilience
  • Orientation to This Book
  • Follow-Up
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Introduction
  • Life Is Hard
  • Learning Resilience
  • Sustaining Your Practice of Leadership Resilience
  • Be a Good Soul
  • Part I. The Exceptional Nature of Leadership Resilience
  • Chapter 1. Bounce Forward
  • The Outcomes of Leadership Resilience
  • Ordinary Resilience
  • Leadership Resilience
  • The Requirements of Leadership: What Makes Leadership Resilience More Challenging
  • The Stresses of Educational Leadership: Neither Rare Nor Unusual
  • Moving on to Chapter 2: A Model of Leadership Resilience
  • Chapter 2. A Model of Leadership Resilience
  • The Leadership Resilience Model
  • Key Assumptions of the Leadership Resilience Model
  • Benefits of the Leadership Resilience Model
  • Using the Model: A Disciplined Practice
  • Part II. Enabling Capacities of Leadership Resilience
  • Chapter 3. Relationships: Surround Yourself With Good Souls
  • A Relationship Inventory
  • How Relationships Make Us Resilient
  • Who Are Your Wilsons?
  • Beware of Non-Resilient Individuals
  • Cultivating the Leadership Resilience-Enabler "Relationships"
  • Resilience as a Social Identity
  • Be a Good Soul
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
  • Chapter 4. Resonance
  • A Resonance Inventory
  • A Force Field of Positive Energy
  • How Resonance Enables Resilience
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
  • Chapter 5. Renewal
  • A Renewal Inventory
  • How Renewal Enables Leadership Resilience
  • Renewal, Creativity, and Problem Solving
  • On-the-Job Renewal
  • Cultivating Renewal to Enable Resilience
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
  • Part III. Leadership Resilience in Action
  • Introduction to Part III: Leadership Resilience in Action
  • Chapter 6. Stay Calm
  • First Do Nothing
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
  • Chapter 7. Carry On
  • Carry On
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
  • Chapter 8. Accept the New Reality
  • Adjust Your Perspective
  • Resist Nostalgia
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
  • Chapter 9. Want Something More
  • Want Something More
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
  • Chapter 10. Instigate Adaptive Action
  • Instigate Adaptive Action
  • Defining Moments and Wise Decisions
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
  • Chapter 11. Reflect & Celebrate
  • Personal Reflection and Celebration
  • Pathways to Personal and Organizational Reflection and Celebration
  • Summary
  • Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
  • Part IV. Leading Organizational Resilience
  • Chapter 12. Organizational Resilience Risks and Opportunities
  • Becoming a Resilient Organization
  • The Resilience Risk Rubric: A Tool to Introduce Innovative Disruption
  • The Resilience Risk Rubric
  • Chapter 13. A Final Word: Forgive Yourself Every Day
  • Appendix: Films, Music, and Literature to Conjure Up Ideas About Leadership Resilience
  • Films
  • Music
  • Literature and Poetry
  • References
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

"I loved this book! The need for resiliency is there for anyone in a leadership position, and this book provides the reader with tips and techniques on how to maintain that resiliency."
Dr. Robert A. Frick, Retired Superintendent, Lancaster, PA
"Elle Napolitano has written the quintessential book on educational leadership. Grounded in theory, drawn from her own experience, and based on numerous interviews with school leaders Napolitano uses cohesive strategies, explicit cases, and an array of inventories designed to help school leaders reflect on their strengths as well as weaknesses. This is a must-read for every administrator."
Debbie Silver, Corwin Author
“In Bounce Forward: The Extraordinary Resilience of Leadership Elle Allison-Napolitano speaks directly to each reader in a voice full of enthusiasm and spirit. As a result this book on leadership succeeds where many fail in that it actually provides the energy to go along with its strong content. The numerous leadership stories are part of the secret of this book, but, in addition, it’s the way in which Elle sits with the reader and speaks with a voice of experience that never loses its 'bounce.' She has been there, and she truly understands the power and the rewards of resilience in leadership. It’s rare to read a book on leadership with a smile on your face even as you learn some powerful lessons from the many activities, questions, and tools provided. This is not only a must read, it’s a must re-read, and a must practice, and a must share. There is no doubt that we can all use a 'bounce forward' as we provide leadership during these difficult times.”
Richard Hanzelka, Ph.D, Professor of Education, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA
“Public education's 21st century leaders are being challenged with the daunting task of making America's students college and career competitive in a global society. Leadership resilience is the linchpin of 21st century leadership survival and success. Allison-Napolitano’s book is an insightful guide to resilience and is a MUST read for today's leaders and aspiring leaders.”
Anita Johnson, Executive Director, National Center for Education, Research and Technology (NCERT)
“As a school administrator how do you stay positive and continually look for ways to improve your school in the face of mounting challenges? After reading this book you will be able to stay positive and take your school to new heights.”
Jim Anderson, Principal, Andersen Jr. High School, Chandler, AZ

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