The Best Leaders

This is from a wonderful post by Maggie Hos-McGrane

“Nurturing the vision and empowering people to make changes is an important part of leadership and in order to be successful … we….. will need to consider carefully how to do this. The Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu suggested:

To lead people, walk beside them … As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate … When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!

Hatred and fear, yes I’ve known so-called leaders who were thought of in this way. Honour and praise don’t interest me in the least. But walking beside someone, coaching and mentoring and helping them down the path, yes that’s something …. ”

….. visit her blog to read the rest of this post. Maggie is such an inspiring and creative leader. I’ve found so much help from her posts.

I hope you’ll take a minute to visit and explore her site.

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Cherie Herring

Music/Technology Integration at Hammond School

I teach elementary music, am passionate about integrating technology into my teaching, am obsessed with my SMARTBoard and iPad, and enjoy creating lessons and sharing ideas. I love technology almost as much as I love cheesecake, and with more energy and ideas than I know what to do with, I can't wait for the sun to come up each morning! I'm wife to Prince Charming and mom to three incredible girls who keep me balanced. . . sort of!