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Lead covers the evidence on what moves a team to adopt something new, including which leadership behaviors predicted adoption and which ones did not. Chapter 1 covers what a leader does that changes how people work. The later chapters build on it.
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What Chapter 1 covers
- What a clear expectation contains: the task, the standard and the date you will check
- Why a goal for learning a new tool comes before a goal for output
- Three ways of leading, and what research links to each
- T-Michael Dougherty's research with 49 community college faculty on leadership and a new teaching approach
- Follow-through: the check date and the recognition
- The Expectation Statement, a short form for writing one expectation for your team's use of AI
The PDF is the chapter exactly as it appears in the printed book, with its numbered sources at the end. Lead is Book 5 of The Mastery Series by T-Michael Dougherty, Ed.D., MPA.
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