“Dueling Boards,” the March 12 post at www.boardsavvysuperintendent.com, tells the true story of school and educational foundation boards at...
Working Hand-in-Hand For Education In Sand Springs, Oklahoma
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Month: August 2015
The Leadership Cost Of Taking A Tiger By The Tail
My weekly English tutoring sessions via Skype with my Taiwanese friends and students, Donyou Chen and his lovely wife Yuwen Chang (known as “TY” and...
The Leadership Cost of Taking a Tiger By the Tail
My weekly English tutoring sessions via Skype with my Taiwanese friends and students, Donyou Chen and his lovely wife Yuwen Chang (known as “TY” and...
Bringing New Board Member On Board – The Right Way
The GM, along with his top five executives, made sure the two incoming board members, neither of whom had been involved with public transportation...
Getting and Keeping the Best In Your Classrooms: a Classic Strategic Challenge
I treasure the memory of my deeply satisfying three-year stint teaching English and ancient history in grades 9, 10, and 11 at Tafari Makonnen...
Whither Volunteer Involvement In Our Nonprofits?
In their informative and thought-provoking new podcast, two seasoned nonprofit leaders – Mick Fleming, President of the Association of Chamber of...
Performance Oversight Isn’t the Superintendent’s Responsibility Alone
“Falling fund a district slipup.” This is the headline of a front page article by Marlene Sokol in the August 8 Tampa Bay Times – about the...
Whither Volunteer Involvement In Our Nonprofits?
In their informative and thought-provoking new podcast, two seasoned nonprofit leaders – Mick Fleming, President of the...
What’s In Your CEO Professional Growth Portfolio?
The great majority of the public transportation CEOs I’ve worked with over the years have been conscientious self-improvers – devouring articles and...
Beware of the Emperor’s New Clothes Syndrome
“You’re pretty obviously over your head and can’t really understand what we’re doing. Instead of getting people riled up, why don’t you get...