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Article: John Kotter on leadership, management and change: An interview with the author of leading change and what leaders really do.(Interview)
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- February 1, 2002
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Good leadership is like gravity. It's felt everywhere but little understood. For too many educators, leadership is present more as a felt absence or visible through a glass darkly. At its worst, those in charge are not up to the task.
For 32 years, Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter has been studying the presence and absence of leadership in business organizations. Much of his thinking can be applied to school organizations as well. His work is especially relevant to the needs of schools and school systems to create succession planning and the role of the superintendent and principal as both manager and leader.
Kotter has closely examined and ...