http://www.leadership501.com/leading-on-purpose/26/ Examining the Gears of Leadership Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:34:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.leadership501.com/leading-on-purpose/26/comment-page-1/#comment-35942 Tegan Kern Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:51:29 +0000 http://staging.leadership501.com/?p=26#comment-35942 I thought this was a great article, and I agree with just about all of it. I felt that the article could really have been summed up with the example of the 25 people holding the edges of a large parachute. I remember we used to do that in phys. ed class when I was younger, we would all pull in different directions, or lift when we weren’t supposed to. All this did was make our P.E. teachers very upset, when we were finally able to work together as a team, the parachute was a beautiful thing. Just like a business or in my case a school district. If we are all able to work together and go after one goal, our lives would be a lot easier. I happen to work for a wonderful principal/leader, who has a goal set in her mind, and she preaches to the staff about reaching it. Unfortunately there is only so much that she can do, it is now up to the staff members to help carry it through, and many of them do not want to do this. This is where we as a district start to fall apart. I thought this was a great article, and I agree with just about all of it. I felt that the article could really have been summed up with the example of the 25 people holding the edges of a large parachute. I remember we used to do that in phys. ed class when I was younger, we would all pull in different directions, or lift when we weren’t supposed to. All this did was make our P.E. teachers very upset, when we were finally able to work together as a team, the parachute was a beautiful thing. Just like a business or in my case a school district. If we are all able to work together and go after one goal, our lives would be a lot easier.
I happen to work for a wonderful principal/leader, who has a goal set in her mind, and she preaches to the staff about reaching it. Unfortunately there is only so much that she can do, it is now up to the staff members to help carry it through, and many of them do not want to do this. This is where we as a district start to fall apart.

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