C. Cryss Brunner is Assistant Professor of Educational Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the editor of Sacred Dreams: Women and the Superintendency, also published by SUNY Press.

Foreword
Charol Shakeshaft

Acknowledgments

Part One
Mystery: Intangible Insights

Chapter 1
Mystery and Metaphor: Introduction to Part 1
Raymond M. Olderman

Chapter 2
Gathering Intangible Data: The Women Superintendents and the Assembly

Chapter 3
Embodying Intangible Data: The Women As Warriors

Part Two
Metaphor: Articulating Intangibles

Chapter 4
The Warrior's Path: The Riddle of the Heart and the Seven Principles of Power

Chapter 5
Principle One: Knowing the Battleground

Chapter 6
Principle Two: Discarding the Unnecessary

Chapter 7
Principle Three: Choosing Battles

Chapter 8
Principle Four: Taking Risks

Chapter 9
Principle Five: Seeking Retreat

Chapter 10
Principle Six: Compressing Time

Chapter 11
Principle Seven: Exercising Power

Part Three
Motion: Intangibles in Action

Chapter 12
Impeccable Practice: Three Results

Chapter 13
First Result: Laughing at Self

Chapter 14
Second Result: Patience without Fretting

Chapter 15
Third Result: Improvisation

Chapter 16
Castaneda and Me

About the Author

Notes

References

Index