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Leadership
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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Leadership
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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Leadership
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…