Creating Positive Change: The Ultimate Test of Leadership
CREATING POSITIVE CHANGE:
The Ultimate Test of Leadership
Don Stepherson V. Calda, Ma.Ed.
Leadership and Management of Change
Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Management
Department of Graduate Studies
Divine Word College of Calapan
Infantado St. Calapan City
(043) 288-8686 local 108 / (043) 441-0553
+63917-558-3645
March 2012
“Leadership means making a difference, creating a positive change; providing the impetus that creates an atmosphere of change that improves the world, or at least the small part of the world around us; leadership is characterized by sustained action over time. Leadership is the stretch of changing things that can be changed, of providing new thinking, new energy, to the current situation”. These are the words uttered by Dr. Marjorie Bowman (2010), a famous medical doctor and professor in Pennsylvania when asked about her definition of leadership. These words are also my main theme is exploring the idea of leaders being change makers. Leaders acting as change makers creating positive change in the society are best exemplified by their subtle actions that lead to positive changes or differences in the community where he or she belongs. But let us first discover the value of leadership.
It is said that few things are more important to human activity than leadership. Effective leadership helps a nation through times of peril and confusion. In a larger sense, it makes a business organization successful. It enables foundation and different agencies to fulfill its mission. Parent’s effective leadership enables children to grow strong and healthy and at the same time productive and responsible members of the society (Mills, 2005). The absence of leadership then is equally dramatic in its effects. Without leadership, organizations move too slowly, stagnate and lose their ways. Companies will move without any sense of direction. Much of the literature available about
The Ultimate Test of Leadership
Don Stepherson V. Calda, Ma.Ed.
Leadership and Management of Change
Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Management
Department of Graduate Studies
Divine Word College of Calapan
Infantado St. Calapan City
(043) 288-8686 local 108 / (043) 441-0553
+63917-558-3645
March 2012
“Leadership means making a difference, creating a positive change; providing the impetus that creates an atmosphere of change that improves the world, or at least the small part of the world around us; leadership is characterized by sustained action over time. Leadership is the stretch of changing things that can be changed, of providing new thinking, new energy, to the current situation”. These are the words uttered by Dr. Marjorie Bowman (2010), a famous medical doctor and professor in Pennsylvania when asked about her definition of leadership. These words are also my main theme is exploring the idea of leaders being change makers. Leaders acting as change makers creating positive change in the society are best exemplified by their subtle actions that lead to positive changes or differences in the community where he or she belongs. But let us first discover the value of leadership.
It is said that few things are more important to human activity than leadership. Effective leadership helps a nation through times of peril and confusion. In a larger sense, it makes a business organization successful. It enables foundation and different agencies to fulfill its mission. Parent’s effective leadership enables children to grow strong and healthy and at the same time productive and responsible members of the society (Mills, 2005). The absence of leadership then is equally dramatic in its effects. Without leadership, organizations move too slowly, stagnate and lose their ways. Companies will move without any sense of direction. Much of the literature available about
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