Distributed leadership in action: Leading high-performing leadership teams in English schools

School Leadership and Management

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-36

  Bush, Tony ^a   Glover, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

continuity; distributed leadership; high performance; leadership teams; team unity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857305211     PISSN: 13632434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13632434.2011.642354     Document Type: Article

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