The Law of the Big Mo by John C. Maxwell

Author:John C. Maxwell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Harpercollins Leadership
Published: 2010-04-03T00:00:00+00:00

MOVING THE IMMOVABLE

Of all the leaders I meet, the ones who become the most frustrated are those who try to make progress and develop momentum in bureaucratic organizations. In those organizations, people are often marking time. They’ve given up, and they either don’t want change or don’t believe it’s possible.

Several years ago I saw a movie called Stand and Deliver that illustrates the hopelessness many people feel in an organization without momentum. Maybe you’ve seen it, too. It’s about a real-life teacher named Jaime Escalante who worked at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles, California.

Teaching, motivating, and leading were in Jaime Escalante’s blood, even from the time of his youth in his native Bolivia. He quickly became known as his city’s finest teacher. When he was in his thirties, Escalante and his family immigrated to the United States. He worked several years in a restaurant and then at Russell Electronics. Though he could have pursued a promising career at Russell, he went back to school and earned a second bachelor’s degree so that he could teach in the United States. Escalante’s burning desire was to make a difference in people’s lives.

At age forty-three, he was hired by Garfield High School to teach computer science. But when he arrived at Garfield on the first day of class, he found that there was no funding for computers. And because his degree was in mathematics, he would be teaching basic math. Disappointed, he went in search of his first class, hoping that his dream of making a difference wasn’t slipping through his fingers.

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