draft presentation to educational leaders

1. The Leadership Ladder Should one climb? Why would one climb? How could one climb?

3. “ If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” Antoine de Saint-Exupery

8. Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts. John Gardner

10. Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future. Edwin Friedman

11. Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don't fall in line with people who don't respect us and who we don't believe have our best interests at heart. We are willing to follow leaders, but only to the extent that we believe they call on our best, not our worst. Rachel Maddow

12. So what do leaders Do?

13. Role Model Be a learner Walk the talk Do what you say you are going to do Listen Sincerely and intently to all stakeholders Motivate Give feedback Build Relationship take time to get to know people Think In all sorts of ways

14. Leadership Parts I WE IT

17. “ A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” John Maxwell

20. Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others. David J. Schwartz

22. If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy. Miyamoto Mursashi

23. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. Kenneth Blanchard

26. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Harold R. McAlindon

27. You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings. James Kouzes and Barry Posner

28. In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer

29. I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. Everett Dirksen

30. Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things. Jesse Jackson

31. I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. Ralph Nader

32. “ Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” Steve Jobs

33. “ Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

34. “ Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.” Max Depree

35. Leadership

36. It is a terrible thing as a leader to look over your shoulder and no one is following

39. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams