The Juxtapositions of Management & Leadership for Children’s Education “Doing the right thing or doing things right” Introduction to a Headteachers conference By Martin Casserley

1. Residential Training
Conference
February 2013
Lodore Falls Hotel, Cumbria
Martin Casserley

2. “Doing the right thing
or
doing things right”
The Juxtapositions of Management &
Leadership for Children’s Education

3. “doing things right”
is
Tactical thinking

4. “doing the right things”
is
Strategic thinking

5. Tactical thinking
is management thinking –
implementing the vision
Strategic thinking
is leadership thinking -
creating the vision

6. Strategic thinkers
analyse the situation
their downfall …
“Paralysis by analysis”
Stuck-in-the-mud

7. Tactical thinkers are all about
“doing something”
their downfall …
Jumping in
with both
feet!

8. Smile (noun)
....the shortest distance between two people

9. Be careful of your actions.
You never know when you’re creating a memory
Ricki Lee Jones (born 1954); Singer, Songwriter

10. Neither fire nor wind, birth nor
death can erase our good deeds
Buddha

11. It's not hard to make decisions
when you know what your values are
Walt Disney

12. Leadership is like a teabag; you don’t know
how strong it is until it’s in hot water.
David Cracknel
misquoting Eleanor Roosevelt @ CAPH conference Feb ‘99

13. In each human heart are a
tiger, a pig, an ass and a
nightingale.
Diversity of character is due to
their unequal activity
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914); Satirist, Poet, Journalist
To see what is right & not to do it
is want of courage
Confucius (551-479)

14. The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of
their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

15. The manager administers;
the leader innovates.
The manager maintains;
the leader develops.
The manager relies on systems;
the leader relies on people.
The manager counts on controls;
the leader counts on trust.
The manager does things right,
the leader does the right thing
Peter F. Drucker (American Educator and Writer, b.1909)

16. I have a very strong feeling that the
opposite of love is not hate …
it's apathy
Dr. Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998); Professor, Author

17. Success is the ability to go from one failure
to another with no loss of enthusiasm
Sir Winston Churchill

18. It takes less time to do things right than to
explain why you did it wrong
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-1882); Poet

19. “We who lived in the concentration camps can
remember the men who walked through the huts
comforting others, giving away their last piece of
bread.
They offer sufficient proof that everything can be
taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of
circumstances …
to choose one's own way.”
Viktor Frankl (1905-1997); Neurologist, Psychotherapist
our choice?

21. Always do right - this will gratify some
and astonish the rest
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

23. Relativity applies to physics …
not ethics
Albert Einstein (1879-1955); Theoretical Physicist, Philosopher, Nobel Prize Winner

24. A true hero is not someone who thinks
about doing what is right,
but someone that simply does what is
right without thinking!

25. It's not enough that we do our best;
sometimes we have to do what's
required
Sir Winston Churchill

26. Doing more things faster is no substitute
for doing the right things
Stephen R. Covey (born 1932); Motivational Writer
Children grow to fill the space we create for them - Rabi Sachs

27. Strategy without tactics is the slowest route
to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before
the defeat
Sun Tzu ‘The Art of War’

28. Real integrity is doing the right thing,
knowing that nobody's going to know
whether you did it or not
Oprah Winfrey

29. You might have
climbed with great
skill … yet
… it might have been
the wrong mountain
you were climbing in the
first place
Often, we strive for
excellence only to find
out we scaling up the
wrong wall


30. There is no problem
unless we choose to make it one
David Marshall (born 1957); Nurse

31. It is our choices that show
what we truly are
J.K. Rowling (born 1965); Novelist

32. We cannot wait for great visions from great
people …
It’s up to us to light our own small fires in the
darkness!
The Empty Raincoat, Charles Handy, 1994

33. It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's
important …
you have to do the right thing
Gandhi (1869-1948);
Indian Political & Spiritual Leader
It may not be in your power
It may not be in your time
You may never know what results come from
your action …
but, if you do nothing,
… there will be no result

34. Every time you are tempted to react in
the same old way,
ask if you want to be
a prisoner of the past or
a pioneer of the futureDeepak K. Chopra (born 1946); Physician, Writer

35. Don’t be content to wait and see what will
happen,
but have the determination
to make the right things happen

37. “I didn’t come here to tell you how
this would end …
just how it would begin”Morphius in ‘The Matrix’

38. “Perfection is attained
by slow degrees;
it requires the hand of time.”
Voltaire