Administrative evaluation : what will it take to succeed?

What is a leader? According to Guthrie and Reed (1991), A leader is an individual who accepts the authoritative expectations of others to responsibly guide the activities and enhance the performance of an organization. As education changes, the leadership role is taking on new dimensions. What will it take for me to become an effective educational administrator? As I look back on my coursework, the one issue that continuously appeared was the idea of establishing a vision. The key point made in each class was that to be an effective leader, an administrator needed to develop both short and long term goals