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Lessons Learned
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Lessons Learned
Shaping Relationships and the Culture of the Workplace



July 2003 | 144 pages | Corwin
`Roland S Barth's warm and wise book deserves to be kept close at hand. Witty, entertaining, instructive, and poignant, Barth's stories will get you thinking, and the 'working rules' salted throughout the book will help you navigate the deceptive shoals and powerful tides we all have to deal with at work' - Lee G Bolman, Marion Bloch/Missouri Chair in Leadership University of Missouri-Kansas City Author of Leading With Soul and Reframing the Path to School Leadership (Corwin Press 2002)

`Lessons Learned is an insightful, funny, moving look at commonalties between life at sea and life in the schoolhouse. More than any other Ronald S Barth book, this one exposes Roland for what he really is-an avid sailor, loyal friend, life-long learner, and compassionate leader' - Milli Pierce, Director, The Principals' Center, Harvard Graduate School of Education

`This charming, humorous, and wise book teaches important lessons about relationships at work and at play. Once again, Roalnd S Barth has written a useful and invaluable book for teachers and principals alike' - Thomas J Sergiovanni, Lillian Radford Professor of Education Trinity University, Texas

Roland S`Barth's Lessons Learned is a powerful guide for defining the types of interpersonal relationships needed to bring about success' - Karen M Dyer, Manager Education Sector, Center for Creative Leadership, Author of The Intuitive Principal (Corwin Press 2000)

This book is a collection of aged stories and relates to experiences with astonishing insights. These stories and insights are expressed in metaphors and teachings, which are universal and lasting. The book provides hopes that each of us may find abundant and buoyant joy in our all-too-brief passages with one another. Relationships at work are as taxing and toxic as that aboard a sailing vessel, but yet can be replenishing and fulfilling. `Cruising Rules' is the term the authors use to describe his lessons learned at sea, and `Working Rules,' the lessons learned about relationships at work. Combined, both constitutes Lessons Learned in life.

 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Author
 
Setting Sail
 
1. Have I Told You the One About...?
 
2. The Long Version
 
3. Shootin' the Breeze
 
4. The Fragile Ego
 
5. Who Am I?
 
6. Steer Clear
 
7. The Hand That Holds The Paintbrush
 
8. Strength or Weakness?
 
9. Good Though
 
10. Right or Wrong?
 
11. Held Harmless
 
12. On Balance
 
13. Loose Lips
 
14. Fatal Attraction
 
15. Going It Together
 
16. Captain's Orders
 
17. In Place
 
18. Inside Passage
 
19. Meetings at Bay
 
20. Skinflint Skippers
 
21. Both Feet In
 
22. Promises, Promises
 
23. Fair Winds
 
24. Can You Help Me?
 
Epilogue
 
Cruising Rules Glossary
 
Cruising Rules
 
Working Rules

"These marvelous saying from Barth about schooling, living, and sailing, all here happy bundled together, are as familiar and apt as they are so often forgotten in the pressureful work of schools. Read theses and live by them."

Theodore R. Sizer, Visiting Professor
Harvard Graduate School of Education

"Roland Barth goes to sea to present us with a delightful series of life’s lessons equally applicable to the high seas and to the daily workplace of landlubbers. Twenty-three 'Cruising Rules' matched with twenty-three 'Working Rules' represent the distilled wisdom from a master who has spent forty years leading and learning his way through life to the benefit of others. An invaluable guide to personal and organizational effectiveness."

Michael Fullan, Dean
OISE, University of Toronto

"With Lessons Learned, Barth unites his passion for sailing with his love for schooling. The result is a new kind of wisdom, one born from the integration of experiences with and reflections about life in all of it manifestations. This wisdom pulls us back to think anew about relationships, forgiveness, and responsibilities."

Linda Lambert, Professor Emeritus
California State University, Hayward

"Another great book by Roland Barth! This time bringing together his two passions--sailing and education. It's not only a great compilation of stories, but each one has meaning for our lives as educators. He's given us simple rules to lead us in our complex work to make schools better."

Dennis Littky
Co-Founder and Co-Director of both The Met High School in Providence, RI and The Big Picture Company

"Elegant and wise; and authentic navigational chart for leaders on the high seas of organizational life."

Brendan Croskery, Chief Superintendent
Calgary Board of Education, Alberta, Canada

"Lessons Learned provides lighthearted, pleasurable insight to the collection of rules that guide the development of wisdom from an experienced administrator, professor, and sailor."

The School Administrator, June 2004
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