The School Principal: Visionary Leadership and Competent Management - Paperbackby Theodore J. Kowalski (Author) Over the past two decades, efforts to improve schools have significantly modified role expectations for principals. Today, school level administrators are expected to be both visionary leaders and competent managers. Based on the conviction that administration is an amalgam of leadership and management, The School Principal emphasizes the need for practitioners to apply conceptual skills to make "what to do" decisions,