List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments

Part I. Decision-Making Theory and Theorizing
1. Introduction: Leadership, Decision Making, and Underexplored Issues in Decision Making
2. Theories, Theorizing, and the Art of Theory-Use in Decision Making
Part II. Context and Contextual Issues in Decision Making

3. Organization as Context: Decision Making in Educational Organizations
4. The Political Context of Decision Making in Educational Leadership
Part III. The Decision Maker: Logic, Intuition, Data Use, and Skill

5. The Logic of Decision Making: Problematizing Decision Assumptions and Examining Inferential Leaps
6. The Intuitive Decision Maker in the Information Age
7. Data-Driven Decision Making for School Improvement
8. Dispositional Aspects of Effective Decision Making and the Competent Decision Maker
9. Making Tough Decisions: Issues and Considerations
Part IV. Conclusion: Underexamined Issues in Decision Making

10. The Educational Leader as Decision Maker: Themes, Inferences, and Conclusions
References
Index