Hiring the ideal team and focusing on culture are among the most important high impact leadership practices. But in addition to these “people” priorities, successful leaders and organizations also recognize the importance of “systems.” Leaders and organizations that struggle often do so because they lack in their attention to systems thinking. As a result, change …
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With freedom comes responsibility.
95% of people believe what they read. See? Did you believe that? One of the privileges we all enjoy as a part of our democracy is freedom of speech. It’s even more evident now as we watch what is happening in other parts of the world. However, with freedom comes responsibility. I believe the freedoms …
What does this look like now?
Recently, I started to feed my curiosity by learning what others believe will be the lasting impact of the pandemic on schools. Below are a few articles I found interesting. Analysis from the 74million.org Article from thejournal.comArticle from edsurge.comArticle from the Washington Post Disruption is often the catalyst for change. Let’s see what we learned from …
Priorities
In my current position, I spend a lot of my time learning about new initiatives, frameworks, and methods so that I can lead, serve or help connect other school personnel to resources that enable them to do the same. Recently, while “unpacking” some of these, I was asked what my “recipe” for school leadership was. …
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Thank you for visiting my blog. This is a place where I will share ideas, perspectives and strategies that I believe are helpful as you live an impassioned life or as you lead others. Please contact me if you have any questions, feedback or suggestions for future blog entries.
Rule of Three
Today I want to talk about the “rule of three” and how it can be used to communicate and persuade others. The human brain likes patterns. In fact, when processing information, the mind subconsciously groups things together in patterns. One of anything alone is obviously not a pattern. Two of anything is just a duplicate, …