What is a leader?

And how do you know if you're a good leader or not?

These are very important questions to answer, especially if you want to run a school or district. And yet, the number of people in positions of power, who have no idea how to lead is astounding.

But how do you know? Is there some type of test you can give leaders to know whether they are good leaders or bad?

And the answer is yes, there is a test you can give people in positions of power, so that you know if you're listening to someone who knows what they are doing or someone who is just "faking it until they might make it."

But what does this test say? And how does it know if someone is a good leader or bad? After all, isn't leadership undefinable and just something you're born with?

The trouble is our school system never taught leadership skills in school, therefore most people have no idea what leadership even means or what it looks like. This is also why its so hard for people pin down a definition. But the truth is, leadership is a skill like any other.

Which means, leadership can be taught like a skill.

And if leadership is a skill that means there are fundamentals or principles to leadership.

Bingo! There you go!

The fact is leadership is something you can practice after you learn the 6 principles of leadership skills. Because just like riding a bicycle, once you learn how to be a leader, you never forget it.

So the question then becomes, why doesn't our school system want to teach kids the 6 principles of leadership? Wouldn't it be more fair to kids if we gave them that skill, so that anyone who wanted to become a leader would have the education they needed to make that dream come true?

And if you want to know more about leadership skills and what the 6 principles of leadership look like, you should read "Disrupting Education: The Path to 21st century schools" because this book lays out for people all 6 principles in Chapter 6.

Therefore, there is no more guesswork about who is a good leader or not anymore.

After you read "Disrupting Education" and learn all about the 6 principles of leadership, you will then be able to give people in positions of power the leadership test you have always been looking for.

Because why should you listen to a bad leader? And why should you trust someone who doesn't know what they are doing?

And maybe, when enough people have read "Disrupting Education" and learned all 6 principles of leadership, then we can finally fix our school system. Because don't all kids deserve to learn the 6 principles of leadership in school, so that they have the skills they need to graduate from school and chase after their dreams?

The future is now in your hands.

If you choose to read "Disrupting Education" and learn about the path to 21st century schools, you are saying that you want a better school system for the future. And when you read Chapter 6 and learn all 6 principles of leadership skills, you are saying that you want to give your kids every opportunity to succeed in the world. And when you tell someone else about "Disrupting Education" and encourage them to read it as well, you are saying, "we all need to do our part to give kids the best education possible."

The truth is we can fix our school system if we want to fix it. But it starts with knowledge and leadership. And the only way to become a great leader is to learn the 6 principles of leadership first.

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