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.”

Simon Sinek; Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

“Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.”

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)

• “The best teachers make themselves unnecessary.”

• “The goal of teaching is not to create followers, but creators.”

• A good teacher instructs; a great teacher multiplies.

• Education is complete when curiosity outlives the classroom.

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