CONTENTS -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- Introduction -- Successful principal leadership: Australian case studies -- Conditions and practices of successful principalship in Shanghai -- Successful school principalship in Danish schools -- Sustaining success in challenging contexts: leadership in English schools -- Successful school leadership: the Norwegian case -- Successful principalship: the Swedish case -- Successful leadership in challenging US schools: enabling principles, enabling schools -- Understanding successful principal leadership: progress on a broken front -- Note from the publisher.