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Thanks for selecting our book about superintendent leadership development. For those of us on the outside who look in at the world of district leadership, the daily work of the superintendent may appear deceptively simple. People need answers; superintendents provide them. People have problems; superintendents go about fixing those problems. Through the voices of practicing superintendents in this book, however, you will read in more detail about the challenges and complexities of their daily work. You will hear from them that there are no prescriptions for leadership and that no action is without a potential reaction. You will also hear from them that leaders often find themselves in a quandary—a difficult situation or a practical dilemma. A quandary is a crossroads of sorts. It is a situation in regard to which superintendents speak of weighing options and seeking multiple perspectives. They speak of having to step forward to make the best decision possible among competing perspectives.

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Gary Ivory Adrienne E. Hyle Rhonda McClellan Michele Acker-Hocevar

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© 2015 Gary Ivory, Adrienne E. Hyle, Rhonda McClellan, Michele Acker-Hocevar

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Acker-Hocevar, M., Hyle, A.E., Ivory, G., McClellan, R. (2015). Introduction. In: Ivory, G., Hyle, A.E., McClellan, R., Acker-Hocevar, M. (eds) Quandaries of the Small-District Superintendency. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137363251_1

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