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While some observers have been admirably nuanced in their characterizations , most have only further disfigured an already caricatured portrait. Having worked closely with Michelle for years during her time at TNTP, I know she was never afraid to be a lightning rod and took on the role willingly.
Always true to her convictions, she put the interests of students before even her own reputation. Some would surely say yes. Under her watch, D. Public Schools dismissed an unprecedented number of teachers for performance reasons. When she was Chancellor, nobody forced her to pose with a broom on the cover of TIME magazine—an image that defined her to a greater degree than anything else before or since. Not only that, but in starting StudentsFirst, she explicitly presented herself as an antagonist to the teachers unions.
She titled her own book about her experiences Radical. In making herself a combative public figure, her critics would claim, she warranted attack and earned every insult.
When the American Federation of Teachers covertly put up RheeFirst , a brass-knuckles website featuring a crudely doctored photo of Michelle wearing a tiara and jabs at her family and motives, she could have reciprocated with a site bashing AFT President Randi Weingarten.
Despite enduring insults about her ethnicity , her teaching experience and her integrity , she never responded in kind. She may have been blunt, but she never got personal. Do you need an answer to a question different from the above?
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Her situation drives home two lessons for anyone whose power comes to them through a single, high-placed champion. The first of these is that, regardless of whether you are a favorite of the top dog — in fact especially if you are that — you need to work hard to make your base of support as broad as possible. But no one lasts forever. That is what happened when Giuliani embraced charter schools as part of his erstwhile campaign for the senate.
This is no less true among colleagues in corporations. He worked for four different strong bosses in a nine-year career — including Shai Agassi who was forced out of the company — and he not only survived the organizational turmoil but prospered. By focusing on the quality of the work, sure. But also by understanding the perspective of each new leader, being emotionally cool and nondefensive with his superiors, and building a strong and loyal team.
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