There’s wide agreement in the K-12 sector that one of the preeminent vehicles for building and maintaining a close, productive, and enduring...
Time to Update and Fine-Tune Your Superintendent Leadership Resolutions
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Year: 2017
Time to Update and Fine-Tune Your CEO Leadership Resolutions
There’s wide agreement in the nonprofit sector that one of the preeminent vehicles for building and maintaining a close, productive, and enduring...
Time to Update and Fine-Tune Your CEO Leadership Resolutions
There’s wide agreement in the public transit sector that one of the preeminent vehicles for building and maintaining a close, productive, and...
How Ironic!
Over the years, I’ve been privileged to present a number of governance keynotes and workshops at AASA, NSBA, and state K-12 association meetings. As...
Questions to Anticipate From Prospective Board Members
Veronica Dagher’s article in the December 11 issue of the Wall Street Journal, “What to Consider Before Joining a Nonprofit Board,” is useful...
Making Sure Your Retreat Generates Powerful Outcomes
Over my thirty years of work with public transit CEOs and their boards, I’ve seen a number of transit authorities bring off board-CEO-executive team...
Buzzer Management: Key to Innovation
“This feels wrong in so many ways. It feels reckless, careless and selfish. Of course we’re supposed to wait until we’re sure before we buzz. But...
Don’t Let Fear Become an Insidious Foe of Board-Superintendent Collaboration
Several months ago I listened to a four-CD program by an American Buddhist nun, Pema Chodron. Titled “Smile at Fear,” the program, which was...
Cleveland’s Joe Calabrese: Innovator Par Excellence
Over the past quarter-century I’ve learned that the public transportation authorities that are really good at getting significant, out of the box...
Involving Your Board in Strategic Organizational Development
Every truly extraordinary nonprofit and public sector CEO I’ve observed over the years has made leading strategic change a top priority, wearing...