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    Timeout for Leadership-your one-minute leadership idea Tip Sheet #30 Is there no place like home? For educators, once we find a district we rarely leave.  Of course, securing tenure has a great deal to do with that decision.  I get it.  We become comfortable in our surroundings, we get secure, and we get blinded.  We get…

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    Timeout for Leadership-your one-minute leadership idea Tip Sheet #29 Avoiding the sin of cynicism Last week I shared with you the content of two signs I always kept displayed in my office.  Namely:  The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and my poster of the cows eating each other’s grass (the grass is…

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    Timeout for Leadership-your one-minute leadership idea Tip Sheet #28 Finding fault in paradise      “The fault finder will find faults even in paradise.”   These are the words of Henry David Thoreau in Walden.  These are the same words that I kept in a frame on a shelf behind my desk for the last 15 years…

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