Anybody who knows me now will not believe me when I say that up until the fourth grade in P.S. 157, I was shy and retiring. But at the beginning of the fourth grade my life's direction changed. I will never know what Mr. lames Cooper (a devilishly hand some African-American teacher) saw in me or for that matter what the other teachers saw who recommended me to him. But Mr. Cooper asked me to run for secretary of the student council. I ran and won, and as they say the rest is history. I remained in the student coun cil for the fifth grade and was voted vice president in the sixth grade. I went on to Junior High School 81, joined the school patrol, and graduated from the ninth grade as school leader with the obnoxious title of Head of Heads.

You can be a better boss. You can learn leadership. Thank goodness, because many people in managerial positions haven't the foggiest notion how to lead,They don't iced driven to attain the competencles of a boss--much less a great boss. NoW there is help. The Monroe Doctrine offfers educators, administrators, and business-folk simple, fundamental lessons on becoming--and remaining--a truly great boss.

Lorraine Monroe is a born leader. She caught the bug early, as secretary of the student council in the fourth grade at P.S. in Central-Harlem She went on to found the Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem, a remarkably successful and innovative public school, and became one of the most respected education reformers in America. Now Dr Monroe translates her extensive experience in public schools into the "Monroe Doctrine" to show other education and business leaders how to create and maintain high-achieving organizanons.

The Monroe Doctrine offers readers concrete lessons in the craft of leadership. Its brief, catchy lessons and anecdotes will help potential leaders tap into their natural gifts and harness those gifts to lead seemingly by instinct. With ThE Monroe Doctrine by their side, readers will be able to lead any organization--whether a hospital, house of worship, a sorority, a family, a school, or a business with reneged passion and results.

Introduction

Aa

Abandon

Accustom

Analyze

Apply

Ask

Assess

Attach

Awaken

Bb

Balance

Bear

Believe

Break

Build

Burn

Cc

Calm

Capture

Change

Check

Compete

Construct

Create

Cultivate

Dd

Dare

Deepen

Demand

Dream

Drop

Ee

Emanate

Encourage

Escape

Experience

Ff

Feel

Find

Focus

Free

Fulfill

Gg

Give

Hh

Have

Ii

Imagine

Indicate

Inspire

Intuit

Ij

Joke

Kk

Keep

Know

L1

Leave

Linger

Listen

Live

Love

Mm

Meditate

Mingle

Nn

Name

Oo

Observe

Obsess

Pp

Participate

Penetrate

Permit

Pilot

Plan

Prepare

Present

Preserve

Qq

Quest

Rr

Recall

Reduce

Reflect

Release

Rest

Rethink

Retreat

Ss

Sacrifice

Sanctify

Select

Shed

Shelter

Simplify

Stretch

Tt

Take

Think

Transcend

Uu

Uplift

Vv

Value

Ww

Wait

Write

Xx

X-ray

Yy

Yield

Zz

Zigzag

Epilogue: Monroe's Twelve Pieces of Parting Advice

Postscript

Appendix: The Action Plan Worksheet

Acknowledgments