10 Reasons Helping Professionals Like Educators Are Natural Leaders—Whether They Know It or Not
It’s been a long-held assumption in the U.S. workplace that you’re either a service-oriented professional or a business-minded professional—either a “do-gooder” dedicated to social causes or someone more interested in earning a good living as you climb the corporate ladder. I don’t buy into that assumption, not only because my own career trajectory disproves it, but because some of the most talented and effectual leaders I’ve seen have started out as boots-on-the-ground helping professionals who later took their particular aptitudes and abilities and applied them to the highest tiers of leadership in the organizations they serve. In the case of educators, the “highest-tier” positions would include school principals, district superintendents, university deans and presidents, chief...