John Hattie replies to Scott Eacott's article "School Leadership and the Cult of the Guru: The Neo-Taylorism of Hattie" ("School Leadership & Management," v37 n4 p413-426 2017). Hattie addresses three major claims of Eacott's article. They are: (1) There are specific conditions that have enabled the rise of Cult Hattie. The main condition is that Australia is currently reform-conscious and this reform is dominated by a rational/control approach concerned with a need to know "what works". This is, Eacott writes, a Tayloristic pursuit of "one right method" and "all of a sudden, despite years of school effectiveness and school improvement literature and calls for instructional leadership (including supporting empirical research) there was finally research that spoke to administrator rhetoric"; (2) Eacott's second claim is that "unlike past attempts at pedagogical reform, Hattie's work has provided school leaders with data that appeal to their administrative pursuits"; and (3) The argument that the cult of Hattie is a tragedy in Australian school leadership.