Terrence Deal discusses strategies that emphasize the leader's role as a manager of meaning, suggesting ways in which to build a school culture that will invite loyalty and commitment. Terrence Deal and Kent Peterson offer a prescription for reconciling and integrating the multiple demands of technical leadership and symbolic leadership. Leadership Styles and Strategies. ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management, 1997. In synthesizing the research on leader behavior, Lashway distinguishes between style and strategy .
Style is a reflection of personal makeup, a set of predispositions that people bring to the job.
Strategies develop from the way leaders view power, as well as from what they notice when they analyze a situation. Power can be seen as coercive , resting on the leader's ability to reward or punish followers, or it can be moral , dependent on the leader's ability to inspire respect. The principalship automatically brings a certain amount of coercive power, but it also provides ample opportunities for moral leadership. Principals often favor one type of power over the other-a preference that influences the strategies they adopt. Lashway also notes that leaders don't always see the same things when they scan the environment.