Leadership and Learning

Leadership needs to be seen within the organizational context of managing change (i.e. transformational leadership). The most useful approach is through the use of the vision‐commitment‐management model. Discusses both how leaders emerge in society, and how they can flourish within a learning organization and the educational system, the critical success factors over the longer term being the development and manifestation of a sense of responsibility and integrity. Britain has some particular challenges in changing deeply established historical attitudes and patterns of behaviour, particularly associated with its culture, political structures and the concept of professionalism; these eed to be more thoroughly understood if they are to be effectively challenged in order to establish more international/multi‐cultural leadership styles relevant to the needs of the decades ahead.