Leadership Principles

Peter Drucker,  Drucker's Principles; Drucker Institute, Claremont Graduate School

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

Warren Bennis,  Bennis's Principles; The Leadership Institute, University of Southern California

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

Carl Wieman; 

“Teaching should be approached with the same rigor as scientific research, using evidence and experimentation to determine what works best for student learning.” 

Helen Quinn;  Particle physicist, chair of National Academy of Science - Science Framework. 

Dwight D. Eisenhower,  Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, 34th president

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

Principles & Maxims

• "Plans are useless... but planning is everything" (Dwight Eisenhower)

• Lead by Example (Emmanuel Beech)

• “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”  (Benjamin Franklin)

• “The modern research laboratory is the most powerful instrument of invention.” (Thomas Edison)

• “I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” (Albert Einstein)

• “Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.” (Martin Luther King Jr.)

• “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”  (Plutarch)

• “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” (John Dewey)

• Success without Succession is Failure (John C. Maxwell)

• “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” (Albert Schweitzer)

• “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” (John F. Kennedy)

• “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” (Nelson Mandela)