"...leaders who have worked in autocratic corporations realize that it's not a model of leadership that you can link to issues of sustainability. If you're interested in creating sustainable growth, sustainable productivity, sustainable morale, you can't do that through autocracy. You can work the numbers for a quarter or a half a year, you can drive people to exhaustion for a few months or a couple of years. But if you haven't focused on creating capacity in the organization, it will die through those efforts...If you're trying to create a healthy organization, one that can sustain itself over time, simply legislating and dictating behavior and outcomes doesn't work at all. (Wheatley)

The pressure is on our system and on each of us. We feel it every day. Sometimes it motivates us but too often it frustrates us and exhausts us. We need all hands on deck. The majority of school budgets go to support teachers and their benefits. Often formal teacher leadership is limited to union roles or mentorship. We demand increasing accountability from teachers. They are the ones who interact directly with our students. Why is it that we cannot trust them to make bigger decisions for schools? Do we believe they don't want to join us? Are they unprepared? Or haven't we opened our hands in invitation?

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