LeaderSavers

Leadership Programs: Inadequate to Poor

A recent editorial article by Linda Seebach (Rocky Mountain News, August 20, 2005) reviewed a report from the Education Schools Project that labeled many graduate programs that prepare school leaders as "inadequate to poor."  Seebach's article was provocative -- and so was the report she reviewed.

Leading Change

Organizations tend to resist change.  Various authors have described this resistance as "destructive inertia" or "dynamic inaction" or perhaps just plain old "stuck in a rut - and content to stay there."  I once reported to a VPAA whose favorite expression was "maintain the status quo," or in the words of Senator Rawkins from Finian's Rainbow, "Forward to Yesterday!"

Well, in this day and age, resistance to change can be deadly, yet many of us work in large and complex institutions and organizations that make change difficult at best.  Yet, change we must.