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 Leading in an age of paradox and dilemma, Patrick Duignan The findings from a recent study on leadership in contemporary frontline service organisations (SOLR Project, 2002) indicate that the most difficult challenges facing leaders present themselves as dilemmas, paradoxes or tensions. These tensions are usually people-centred and involve contestation of values and/or ethical contradictions.

 Succession planning for school leadership, Kathy Lacey The challenge of the ageing workforce coupled with a growing disenchantment with the traditional leadership culture and a demand for greater work/life balance, faces many public and private sector organisations.

 'Mentor Partners' for principals: A step forward, David Loader Leadership is a complex interaction between many elements including personality, skills, followers and settings. Whatever the elements, all can be influenced positively by personal mentorship. Unfortunately much leadership development is exclusively based upon giving leaders more knowledge rather than affecting the way they behave.

 Shooting from the lip! The silver tongued devil's guide to good communication, Kerry Cue You are a leader in education. You are up to speed on modern management practices. But you don't have time to scratch yourself or in modern management terms, you don't have time to prioritise 'the Itch Issue' and rank it on the Immediate Action List. So I will get to the point.

 Leading with soul: The principal as spiritual leader, Chris Gleeson No list of competencies for principals would be complete without reference to spiritual leadership. It was the French philosopher, Saint-Exupéry, who wrote: 'There is one great problem, only one; the rediscovery that there is a life of the spirit higher still than that of the mind, and that is the only life that can satisfy a man.'

 Curriculum leadership, Bruce Wilson Australian education has never been in better shape...But is that the general community impression of Australian schooling? I don't think so.

 Detecting: A new core skill for principals, Erica McWilliam There's so much of it around these days that it's impossible not to step in it. Hype, star-power, motivational speakers, business gurus, self-help books written by self-made millionaires - all packaged up so that they are highly attractive to anyone wanting to 'get there from here'.

 Leading learning, Jenny Lewis Noumea is a disadvantaged primary school in the Mount Druitt District of NSW...Over the last five years Noumea has gone through significant change processes that have enabled the restructuring and reculturing of the school, and the collegial creation of knowledge that has significantly changed programmes and processes.

 Leading and building culture, Donald Horne Long before there were modern education systems most human groups had arrangements for three vital activities. One was to give their members some sense of the past (even if it came only from heroic legends and supernatural myths). A second was to explain what it meant to belong to the group. The third was to provide some idea of the meanings and habits (the group 'culture') that made thought and action possible.

 Facing the storm, Gerry Cleveland Let's face it: problems are the norm in the business of people. I don't know any schools that are problem free - we all enjoy the same 'natural resources' of problems. If school leaders want to make a huge impact on the process of education I have a suggestion. Let's think about conflict differently. Let's do something about how parents and teachers are dealing with conflict, disagreements and disputes.

 Principal for principal fundraiser, Rhonda Galbally Almost every aspect of the role of principal has increased in complexity over the past decade. The role of principal as fundraiser has also become more complex and in many ways more important than it has ever been.