Amad Reston is a great leader. His vision for the School Plus Web services is an excellent and cost-effective idea for the company. By moving the web services to an outside vendor, Amad has discovered that the company would save money and improve the reliability and responsiveness of the services. It sometimes takes a while for management and corporate to accept change. However, In John P. Kotter's "Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail", he tells …showed first 75 words of 604 total…

…showed last 75 words of 604 total…active in his pursuit to transform the servers, especially since they ultimately affect his division. Leaders never back down from their vision, they just find another way to succeed. John P. Kotter tells us "Transforming an organization is the ultimate test of leadership, but understanding the change process is essential to many aspects of a leader's job. Two skills in particular -- building coalitions and creating a vision -- are especially relevant to our times."