n One step is easy. One step isn’t enough. n Two steps is tempting. Two steps means that everyone understandsnwhat you’re up to when you pitch an idea to them. […]
Peter Block, author of The Empowered Manager , noted that the apparent power of those at the top is much less than absolute. What leaders can do from the top […]
Buckingham & Coffman. (1999). First, break all the rules: What the world’s greatest managers do differently. A really, really great book for leaders and change agents.
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n Most organizations are paralyzed, stuck in a rut, staring at the growth paradox. On one hand, they understand all the good things that will come with growth. On the […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] nn Why haven’t schools changed more? Maybe because they can’t. n In their 2005 Phi Delta Kappan article, Can Schools Improve?, Christensen, Aaron, & Clark […]
Collins. (2001). Good to great: Why some companies make the leap… and others don’t. Local communities strongly believe that their schools are good. ‘Good is the enemy of great.’ [see […]
[from http://tinyurl.com/aofe8] What would school organizations be like if every employee had the opportunity to pursue Option B? As Kathy Sierra notes, ‘What if the price for working on weakness […]
Measure just about anything, and the distribution . . . almost always comes out as a perfect bell curve. . . . [The bell curve] even applies to the energy […]
Most educational administration graduate students can tell you about Bolman & Deal’s leadership frameworks . The frames help change agents conceptualize different approaches to an issue. Depending on the circumstances, […]
Pfeffer & Sutton. (2000). The knowing-doing gap: How smart companies turn knowledge into action. Countless leaders know what they should do. But yet desired change fails to happen. Here’s why.
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There are two kinds of organizations. One kind likes to be on the cutting edge . . . to embrace the new. The other kind fears that, and holds back. […]
Many of you are familiar with Rogers’ diffusion of innovation theory, even if you didn’t know its formal name. Dr. Everett Rogers is probably most famous for popularizing the following […]
Change. It’s inevitable. It happens whether we want it to or not. But sometimes we embrace it with open arms and sometimes it drags us kicking and screaming… Many have […]
Here’s a great quote by Dr. Kevin Dettmar , professor of English and cultural studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, from his recent article, Earbuds and Mosh Pits , in […]
Random musings. Half-finished (and quite possibly half-baked) thoughts.nThings that have caught my eye… n One of the most interesting articles I’ve read in a longntime n Attractingnthe twentysomething worker. Describes […]
As some of you know, the Achievement Through Technology and Innovation (ATTAIN) bill recently was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill seeks to refine and expand the […]
By anyone’s measure, Mike Pearce appears to be a phenomenal history teacher. His Ellison High School students in Killeen, Texas had a 99% passing rate on the state history assessment […]
