books by Gordon A. Donaldson (cultivating improvement leadership)

books by Gordon A. Donaldson

books:

Corporate Debt Capacity: A Study of Corporate Debt Policy and the Determination of Corporate Debt Capacity ...
Gordon Donaldson

Beard Books, 2000

An important book for corporate financial planners and managers to assist in determining debt financing and the establishment of borrowing limits.

Harvard Business Review on Corporate Governance (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)

1 review
Walter J. Salmon, Jay William Lorsch, ...

Harvard Business School Press, 2000

a variable overview about governance
This paperback is designed to be a reference, focusing on both policy and strategic challenges for senior managers working with Boards and Board members. Some of the chapters are articles; others are transcripts of interviews with key business leaders. Like any edited series, there is a range of quality here. Some of the pieces are far-out prescriptions from academics that will never see the ...

Cultivating Leadership in Schools: Connecting People, Purpose, & Practice

4 reviews
Gordon A. Donaldson

Teachers College Press, 2006

Author's Synopsis
This little volume scrapes away the layers of thinking and strategies that have built up over the years and have been proferred to school principals. It begins with the simple, underlying question: "How is it that schools can be lead?" And it begins with a simple goal: to develop a practical model of school leadership that promises to address the two most pressing issues facing school ...

How Leaders Learn: Cultivating Capacities for School Improvement

1 review
Gordon A. Donaldson Jr.

Teachers College Press, 2008

A paradigm shift in understanding school leaders' learning
Gordon Donaldson "How leaders learn". There is surprisingly little written, or known, about how school leaders learn. One suspects that situated learning (Lave & Wenger, 1996) is the norm because most school leaders hold a variety of formal and informal school leadership positions before attaining principalship. The problem for every school leader and educational system is ensuring that ...

Making Sense As a School Leader: Persisting Questions, Creative Opportunities (Jossey Bass Education Series)
Richard H. Ackerman, Gordon A., Jr. Donaldson, ...

Jossey-Bass, 1995

"A real contribution to an over-discussed subject.... This book reaches below the surface to the real issues and relationships that confront principles in their orchestration of the daily affairs of teachers, parents, and students." --Harold Howe II, former president of the Ford Foundation for Education and Public Policy Based on the work of the prestigious Harvard Principal's Center, this book shares some of the "sense" that ...

Who's Who in Scottish History

1 review
Gordon Donaldson, Robert Morpeth

Welsh Academic Press, 1997

Who's Who in Scottish History
This biographical history of Scotland contains over 230 entries in chronological order from Malcolm II (c.954-1034) to Robert Louis Stephenson (1850-1894) and spans a thousand years of Scottish History. An invaluable source of information for both students and the general reader, Who's Who in Scottish History features political and ecclesiastical figures, writers, artists, scientists and ...

Corporate Restructuring: Managing the Change Process from Within

1 review
Gordon Donaldson

Harvard Business School Press, 1994

He is what he is
When we were studying corporate finance and policy, our teachers use to recommend us Gordon's articles and books; they called him father of finance. His articles were true classics; even after passage of few decades they remain as applicable as they were then. Same is with this book. It dispels the myth that restructuring can only be from outside by giving you live examples. I would ...

The Memoirs of Sir James Melville of Halhill

1 review
Sir James; Gordon Donaldson ed. Melville

The Folio Society, 1969

A Rare Gem for the Marian Scholar
This is a wonderful folio book. In reading the signifiant works of others in both the early 20th century and currently, Melville is an often quoted source. Most primary sources from the period are difficult to read, but not this one, which has been edited and prefaced in a way to make it clearly understandable. It is almost imperative that anyone who relies on Melville read him in his own ...