Leadership In The Pre-Universitary System

The school manager, by complying with the adequate way of becoming a leader, has to adopt a new attitude in order to reach the basic objectives of his organization, related to time, performance and cost. The results should be the beneficiaries’ satisfaction and quality in education. The school manager has to take the responsibility of a leader, a role that becomes more and more complex due to the others’ expectations related to decision making, strategic organization and improvement of educational process. The speciality literature approaches, from the praxiological point of view, the management and leadership topic and we may notice some differences between the theoretical characteristics and the obvious and necessary practice as a solution inside a successful organization. This study aims at analyzing the leader’s capacity concerning intelligence as a form and attribute of behavioural organization, as an aptitude or capacity, as a process, as a real or potential fact, because the individual differences related to mental features and the development of analysis tools represent the bridge between manager and leader. The raw material of a leader personality is intelligence, difficult to define but easy to identify. The capacity to understand what is really essential, to solve problems based on the previous experience represent the attribute of an open-minded, skillful leader, relying on teamwork, with solutions for each and every situation.