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The leader plays a very crucial and important participation in the success (or failure) of the organization he is leading. It is this leader that creates the environment where his followers can comfortably and adeptly function towards the common goal and objective of the team. It is this leader that makes or breaks the ability of the organization to sustain itself or plunk down into the abyss of no-hope. Why is a leader that important? He is the key person. He is the main man. And what the leader has to give to the organization or to team matters a lot in terms of how things will work out for them. And what the leader is -- his experiences, his knowledge, his attitude, his potential, his capability, his skills -- contributes to how the rest of his subordinates will work for or against their purpose.
Both teachers and principals act as the main authority inside the school setting. And being these so-called “powerful people” does entails equally “powerful responsibilities’. What the teachers say or do impacts a hundred lives, their students, which in turn impact other people within their own circles of influence. The principal, being the administrator and manager, do have a very important role in the way the teachers conduct, including the way they see their job, the way they treat other teachers, the way they value their students, and so on. That is why, these people (particularly principals and teachers), and their respective actions, whether they are good or bad, affects each other, especially, the schools performance, may it be academically, or its reputation.
