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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Tony, I really enjoyed reading
your answer and have a lot of the same opinions and views on leadership.<span>  </span>Principals get rewarded in a variety of
different ways from managing adequately from all stakeholders on any given
day.<span>  </span>Although, on a very tiny scale I
was able to get some experience with this by being our “head teacher”<span>  </span>and having to fulfill some of these
obligations for a number of days during the school year.<span>  </span>I found
that the best days were when the day was not interrupted due to the absence of
our principal and things went on as if the principal was present on that day.<span>  </span><span></span></span></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Poor leadership qualities most
certainly wash away the possibility of building goals being reached.<span>  </span>One of my favorite movies of all time is
Remember the Titans and there is a movie quote in that movie that speaks
volumes.<span>  </span>The quote is “Attitude Reflects
Leadership” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUyESAyELXY" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUyESAyELXY</a>.<span>  </span>If the attitude of the principal is one of
positivity and hopefulness it is going to be reflected by teachers, students,
and all stakeholders of a given school.<span>  </span><span></span></span></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">A staff that is divided is detrimental
to the entire organization and this could be from failing to be a good
leader.<span>  </span>As stakeholders hold a principal
accountable for the entire school there is no way that the stakeholders will
ever trust a system if they feel like the system doesn’t trust them as a
parent.<span>  </span><span>  </span><span></span></span></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Principals
get rewarded for effectively utilizing both aspects. Managing adequately
ensures that unwanted occurrences are minimized due to things running smoothly.
Stakeholders enjoy knowing that their day will not be interrupted or changed
due to poor managing.  These individuals appreciate consistency in knowing
what to expect. </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">However, managing without quality leadership is likely to have
negative effects such as few or no building goals being reached, understood, or
even created.  Individual teachers and departments need to have leadership
in order to come together as a single unit for the purpose of creating,
understanding, implementing and reaching reasonable goals.  </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Another unwanted effect due to a lack of leadership might be busy
days.  Good leading brings others together as a focused team which will
allow tasks to be managed by those who understand the overall goals and
missions of the team.  This will alleviate some of time spent by the
principal being a manager. </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Failing to be a good leader intuitively looks bad.  Most
stakeholders lack respect for a poor leader just because they are in a leader’s
position (principal) and are not fulfilling that position.  Divisivity
with colleagues and community as well as a lack of or misunderstood purpose
also are controlled by good leadership. Stakeholders hold the principal accountable
if these things aren’t appropriately dealt with</span>.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>





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