“When you shine a light on the problem and don’t do anything, you’re only admiring the problem,” said school superintendent Randy Nelson of the La Crosse, Wis., school district.
“It’s time to stop admiring the problem,” he told his administrators and school police when introducing my technical assistance team.
Leadership is not synonymous with title or position — it’s about personality traits unique to getting things done even in the face of adversity. Either you have it or you don’t.
Effective leaders don’t care where you’re from, if you wear bow ties and seersucker suits and use Southern slang spoken with a Southern drawl. They care only about outcomes. Either you have them or you don’t.
[For more of this story, written by Steven Teske, go to http://jjie.org/listen-to-the-...ls-is-racist/124246/]
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