{"id":2245,"date":"2014-09-22T21:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learnedleadership.org\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2014-09-22T21:00:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T07:00:48","slug":"do-you-have-what-it-takes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/do-you-have-what-it-takes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have What It Takes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to be a principal and even more so about what it takes to be a high performing leader (dare I say a level 5 leader).\u00a0 So naturally, I drift to the thought, &#8220;do I have what it takes?&#8221;\u00a0 One of my favorite, I mean absolutely favorite quotes is from Michael Fullan when he says &#8220;collaborative cultures rarely select newcomers only on the basis of their <em>personal <\/em>track records.\u00a0 Rather, they hire largely for the person&#8217;s ability to work with and lead others.&#8221;\u00a0 Fullan goes onto quote another author by adding &#8220;We want people who know they can get better; they want to learn from the best.\u00a0 We look for people who light up when they are around other talented people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 239px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51JAJtNN%252BBL._SY344_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg?resize=229%2C346\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"346\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great book, you should read it.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a young leader it&#8217;s easy to see why I might gravitate to this quote.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have decades of experience.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t passed <em>The Tipping Point <\/em>of 10,000 hours of administrative work&#8230;wait, wrong analogy&#8230;I haven&#8217;t blinked&#8230;um, that doesn&#8217;t sound right&#8230;anyway, insert Malcolm Gladwell reference here.\u00a0 What I do have is enough sense to know that I&#8217;m a better leader when I rely on the wisdom and collaboration of my team to make decisions, rather than always shooting from the hip.\u00a0 Is that what it takes?\u00a0 The ability to say &#8220;less of me and more of us?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?\u00a0 Yes you!\u00a0 The principal, or leader reading this post, I want to hear your thought on what it takes?\u00a0 Or is that wrong question?\u00a0 Don&#8217;t be shy.\u00a0 Start typing now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to be a principal and even more so about what it takes to be a high performing leader (dare I say a level 5 leader).\u00a0 So naturally, I drift to the thought, &#8220;do I have what it takes?&#8221;\u00a0 One of my favorite, I mean absolutely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[163,166],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andys-deep-thoughts","tag-malcolm-gladwell","tag-michael-fullan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5BJbv-Ad","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}