Seeing People as Productive

06/29/2010

The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys of becoming part of a small child's world.
Janet Gonzalez-Mena, early childhood consultant

According to management guru Peter Drucker in his classic opus, Managment: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (New York: Harper and Row, 1974), traditional approaches to the managing of people do not focus on people as a resource, but as "problems, procedures, costs." He amplifies...

"People are weak; and most of us are pitifully weak. People cause problems, require procedures, create chores. And people are a cost and a potential 'threat.' But these are not the reason people are employed. The reason is their strength and their ability to perform....The purpose of an organization is to make the strengths of people productive and their weaknesses irrelevant."

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Learning to Lead: Effective Leadership Skills for Teachers of Young Children by Debra Sullivan is written for early childhood teachers at all levels. It combines accessible leadership theory and practice with important topics and issues such as human development, diversity, anti-bias, work with families, and social change. Each chapter is built around a combination of theories, examples, and reflection questions — all designed to prompt self-evaluation and personal leadership development.

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