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This chapter highlights the challenges educational leaders face and the way they cope with these challenges. To survive and succeed as leaders requires personal strategies and resilience. The need for such coping mechanisms and personal dispositions is grounded in the nature and challenges of leadership.
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Higgs, J. (2017). Survival and Resilience. In: Cherry, N., Higgs, J. (eds) Women of Influence in Education. Higher Education Horizons. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-815-0_11
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