While heroism often requires quick thinking and decisiveness, truly
heroic leaders often also display an impressive amount of patience.
Given the pervasiveness of the myth of the solitary,
heroic leader at the top, Murphy is not surprised that unheroic leaders — that is, most leaders — lapse into negative self - evaluations and conclude that they don't measure up.
Former Los Angeles Unified School District Board Member Yolie Flores was among the winners of the Democrats for Education Reform's 2011 Brian Bennett Education Warrior Awards, which
honor heroic leaders in education.
Nothing makes
a heroic leader seem a little less heroic than if he or she seems to want constant credit for his or her actions.
However,
a heroic leader does so without any expectation of payback.
The story has its centre in
the heroic leader Moses.
Murphy is skeptical of the myth of
the heroic leader; he's much more interested in the unheroic nature of leadership.
The premise that great schools have great leaders can lead to a vision of the principal as
a heroic leader working alone to save the day.
We need
a heroic leader to build an enormous movement for an immediate climate mobilization and we need him or her to step up very soon.
And I'm proud that
the heroic leader of Pigs in Space and I have so much in common.