An off-the-cuff math question, “How much do you suppose they’re making off this ridiculous spectacle?” turned an excruciatingly dull evening into a creative endeavor. Yep, a math question. The other chaperones and I were hostages to a truly ghastly theatrical performance.…
Reading has been my top pastime since I was six years old, so in this year of “new normal,” I’m not surprised that my total was 153 books. A few stats: 90 were audiobooks—my companions while gardening, walking, driving, running.…
I just learned that there are still a few tickets left for my workshop Holistic Leadership: Everyone Leading From Their Strengths on October 5, just outside of Chicago. Why attend? You receive a copy of my Gold-Medal-winning book on the…
Have you noticed there’s a Women in Education: Leading Perspectives Institute in July? In San Antonio? Are you thinking, "Why an event just for women? Isn’t ‘cross-pollination’ among genders a better way to improve the lives of children?” If you’re…
“Morning meeting time to build relationships? When they’re already asking us to teach more content than students can master? What a joke,” the middle school math teacher told me. Content and relationships do seem like competing priorities, don’t they? After…
Another year of growing, questioning, escaping, laughing, and learning through reading. And another blog on my top 5 books for the year. A few comments Total for the year: 145. I read just about all genres, and find that fiction…
I used to facilitate the MBTI ® Certification Program, and over the years started hundreds of consultants and counselors and OD specialists and educators—and more—on the path to effective use of psychological type theory. Note that I said started them on the…
How do your strengths get in the way of coaching and mentoring those around you? Leaders who easily see the best course of action in complex situations may “tell” rather than giving an employee enough time to reason it through…
In a previous post, I wrote about “satisficing”—putting in just the right amount of effort. Whether you’re hearing, “These employees simply need to do more with less” or “We need to teach students to have grit”, the implication is that…
Only on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise does saying, ‘Make it so,' make it so. That's one of my favorite responses to leaders who say, "My team simply has to do more with less--our vision is too important to…