Study Of Authentic Leader In School Change Context

From the 1990s, we launch new education reform in order to cultivate innovative talents in our country. School is the main position of education reform. Change can be achieved through human activity, and school change can be achieved through effort of school leaders, teachers and students. School leader is the key factor of school change and active promotes school change. School change proposes new challenges for school leader:school leader must get teachers and students’trust, and let teachers and students have confidence in school leaders. This kind of leader is a new kind of leader that is studied at abroad. The paper explores the concept of authentic leadership, its roots and its implications for practice. It sketches the following aspects.Firstly the paper explores the essentials of authentic leader:authenticity. It includes integrity and competence. Integrity is a fundamental consistency between one’s values, goal, and actions. Competence is practical ability and can let leader fill with confidence. It also let followers will follow their leader.Then it describes a process for discovering one’s own authentic core-personal philosophy. Personal philosophy is the root of leadership and the core of authenticity. If-want.to discover one’s own authentic core:personal philosophy, must firstly know "what do you stand for". And explores the methods of "what do you stand for". And then the paper describes where personal philosophy comes from. We know leadership with personal nature by exploring personal philosophy origin.Finally it explores three consequences from authentic leader under influence of personal philosophy:that there are many ways to excel as leader; that authentic leader must recast their notions of vision and strategy; that authentic leader can simplify leadership and make transformation possible.