This book aims to fill the gap in our knowledge about crisis management in schools, its particular characteristics, and strategies from a historical point of view. It combines knowledge about educational leadership with biographical narratives of great leaders in history who have faced a tremendous crisis successfully and from whom we can learn a lot about effective coping strategies in times of crisis. The leaders in the book represent different nations and organizations, facing political, military, economic or social crises. The book provides a deeper knowledge necessary for preparing for a possible crisis and for managing it in successful ways if it comes and adds novel insights into the field of educational administration and leadership in the twenty-first century.

Chapter 1. The current scholarship about crisis management in organizations.- Section I: Insights from global/political crises.- Chapter 2. Abraham Lincoln.- Chapter 3. Winston Churchill.- Chapter 4. Charles de Gaulle.- Chapter 5. John Kennedy.- Section II: The military crisis in times of war.- Chapter 6. The Duke of Wellington.- Chapter 7. Alexander the Great.- Chapter 8. Elizabeth I.- Chapter 9. Napoleon Bonaparte.- Section III: Insights from economic crises.- Chapter 10. Theodore Roosevelt.- Chapter 11. Franklin D. Roosevelt.- Chapter 12. Margaret Thatcher.- Section IV: Conclusion.- Chapter 13. Towards a practical model to cope with an organizational crisis in our schools. 

Izhar Oplatka is Professor of Educational Administration and Leadership at The School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Oplatka's research focuses on the lives and careers of school teachers and educational leaders, educational marketing, emotions, and the foundations of educational administration as a field of study.