ABSTRACT
Karl Weick’s ideas are evocative on multiple fronts. They highlight aspects of leadership capacity that are under-addressed or altogether ignored in many programs. Leadership is about decision making directed at the functional resolution of problems brought on by changing environmental conditions that threaten organizational stability. Leadership is about the thinking provoked and doing informed by a leader’s knowledge of a wide range of phenomena. Delving into the details of theorizing logic is less appealing than the latest leadership or school-improvement topical wave for many. Weick’s exploration of the organizing process is guided by a coherent and refined grasp of this logic; his approach provides prima facie of its potency. Faculty in educational leadership programs could learn much from his example. Coupled with the need for greater creativity is Weick’s call for a protean, agile mind-set. The disposition for living with ambiguity resists pressures toward hyper-simplicity for the sake of expedience.
