Principals as innovators

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

In public education, leadership often makes the difference in school performance, even under the same broad reform mandates. School principles shape motivational climates and structures for learning. Improvements in education rest on their ability to lead the process of change. In this paper, innovators are compared with control groups of non-innovators. The findings have been distilled into tools that can be used by leaders from any sector to guide change successfully.