**2. Where educational leadership needs to be**

The study of educational leadership has been complicated at the best of times by higher education and school leadership contexts that are incredibly diverse. While managers in formal organizations have been studied in contexts of big business contrasted to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the educational climate is less homogenous. For instance, in one higher educational context, universities are large and dominated by strategies of transnational educational arrangements [9]. In another, free higher education offers a different university context for leaders.

Leadership in education has been dominated by theories of principal leadership [10], distributed leadership [11], and leadership theories based on roles and organizational structures over individual leaders [12]. These while offering theories to explain how people act in roles, neglect approaches to leadership that are more human, co-created, and behaviorally oriented [13]. In this book, I encouraged a stronger and more effective connection to leaders, and the kinds of cognitions, behaviors, and actions that may constitute good leadership in the educational context.
