Leadership Style

First Edition: Published as part of For Teachers Only, by ETONSA (The English Teachers' Network of South Africa), 2001. Revised Edition: LukivPress (Canada), 2022. "Leadership Style" appeared in two issues of The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education (2003 [Spring], 2013 [February]). An excerpt When snags, or problems, surface, a Great Leader looks for symptoms. He or she encourages, even empowers, staff members to problem solve at the causal level, and to exercise their own judgement and creativity. The community spirit of teamwork this leader inspires turns problems into "our" problems and solutions into "our" solutions. Problems are evaluated down at the grassroots, down at "our" grassroots. The author Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).