As we jumped up in response she proceeded to throw up all over every thing and every one. This was followed by near panic as we tried to simultaneously calm everyone down and clean things up, all in the pitch dark. We finally succeeded in reassuring all concerned that things were fine and that in the morning everything would be better. Leadership requires optimism, even when it isn't warranted. After all we spend a lot of our time operating in the dark.
Education is an act of faith, of belief in the future.
As leaders we must believe and help others believe as well. I was driving to a meeting with our building principals when I heard on the radio that it was the 50th anniversary of the death of Franklin Roosevelt. He became president while the nation was in its worst economic depression. The war was still under way when FDR died. He never had a good day.