ABSTRACT
In this chapter, six educational leaders are sketched out who are in various stages of connoisseurship. They include Australian and American women and men who are both site and system level educational administrators/leaders currently at work in both nations' schools. The chapter explores that as educational leaders gain competence on the job, their field of vision and their ability to engage in finer-grain differentiations in the work environment expands, though not as a "standard" process nor on a uniform timetable. Many educational leaders focus rather exclusively on bureaucratic advancement in the hierarchy of their school systems. If they are conscious of their own internal development it is usually in relation to this advancement, that is, the development of internal differentiation is seen as a necessary factor in the attainment of external recognition. The chapter offers portraits of connoisseurs of leadership performance.
