12 Lessons in Leadership in a Year to Forget
This opinion article published in The Brussels Times was written by David Willows, Director of Advancement at ISB.
10/12/2020
I’ll be honest, when I asked the grade 4 students in my class back in 2001, to imagine the experience of school in 2020, none of them were even close.
There is no doubt that, for many of us, we will remember this year as one to forget. But before we file it away under Life’s Least Wanted, I’m going to have one last attempt at extracting some of the lessons in school leadership that I’ve learned along the way.
It’s not an exhaustive list. It’s not even an entirely serious list. But one or two of these lessons may just cause you to nod in agreement or give rise to a wry smile.
So, here goes.