CHAPTER FIVE
The Third Key—Becoming a Change Agent
Principal, this chapter is about your qualities as a leader of change. How good are you at moving people and organizations forward under very difficult circumstances? The goal of this chapter is to make you and the vast majority of your colleagues truly the second-most important players in the education of students.
In his classic advice book for Renaissance leaders, The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli counseled them about the challenges involved in establishing a new order of things. He said that those who are against the change will be vociferous and aggressive, while those potentially in favor will be timid and lukewarm in their support. The reason is that the opposers know concretely what ...
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