If you’re going to lead a school, you have to believe that you know enough to be of service, but the uncomfortable – and liberating – truth is that no one person can ever know enough to effectively run a school. The knowledge you need will be distributed among everyone who works within your school, and there will be pockets of expertise in every department and year team. If you restrict your collective knowledge to only those in senior leadership positions, your decisions will always be less intelligent than they could have been had you tapped the collective knowledge of the entire school
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