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1 Everything Has a Beginning

In the beginning, you act like a leader — until one day you realise that you have become one.

Pascal Brisson

Pascal Brisson, high school teacher, sees the advertisement in the paper “Internationella Engelska Skolan wants to open in Sundsvall, Sweden”. Something in the advertisement piques his interest, it stimulates his personal drive, creativity and willingness to take risks for the potential of fixing something that isn’t working. In December 2008, he emails the CEO of Internationella Engelska Skolan and says he is interested in the job as principal of a new school in Sundsvall. “It was clear that I would get the job when during an interview I said: ‘One thing I guarantee you, I can really say to all parents ...

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