Later this week I’ll be speaking to a room full of school leaders about a topic that doesn’t get nearly enough attention: leadership teams. Most…
Leading on the #RoadToAwesome
Leading on the #RoadToAwesome
Later this week I’ll be speaking to a room full of school leaders about a topic that doesn’t get nearly enough attention: leadership teams. Most…
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, the company was on the brink. It wasn’t that Apple lacked talent. It wasn’t that their people…
If I’m honest, overextension has been one of my most consistent leadership mistakes. As a principal, I took on too much because I cared deeply…
I was in Oklahoma this week, keynoting a conference for school principals. After the session, a leader pulled me aside to process something happening in…
In the past few weeks, I’ve watched strong, capable leaders work tirelessly to fix individual issues in their schools. The problem isn’t effort.The problem isn’t…
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve walked out of a leadership team meeting feeling pretty good about the conversation—only to realize a week…
Over the years, I’ve noticed a leadership pattern that shows up far more often than most people are willing to admit. And the tricky part…
There are few moments in leadership that linger quite like an angry parent conversation. The phone call you replay on the drive home.The meeting that…
I remember a conversation with a school leader not long ago that has stayed with me. It wasn’t dramatic.There was no crisis unfolding in real…
Each year, I spend time choosing one word to guide how I want to show up as a leader. Not a resolution.Not a checklist.A posture.…