This scenario will probably sound familiar to many if not most of our readers: Board members over the course of one or more lengthy work sessions...
Nashville MTA’s Innovative Budget Submission Pays Off Handsomely
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Year: 2017
Leadership Lessons From a Highly Successful CEO
Not long into my first in-depth conversation with Curtis Stitt, I realized that I was in the company of an uncommonly thoughtful CEO who was a...
COTA’s CEO Curtis Stitt Reflects on Chief Executive Leadership
Not long into my first in-depth conversation with Curtis Stitt, I realized that I was in the company of an uncommonly thoughtful CEO who was a...
Board-Savvy Superintendents Don’t Underestimate Resistance to Governance Change
Resistance to change has scuttled more than one change ship in the sea of K-12 governance; in fact, it makes sense to assume that whatever approach...
CEO Jeff Thomson: the Chief Energizer at Work at IMA
A few years ago, the day after facilitating a daylong nonprofit board-CEO retreat at the Wallace Center of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
Discussing Board Committees at APTA’s Transit Board Members Seminar on July 24
It was a distinct privilege and pleasure teaming up with Dave Stackrow in presenting our “Building a Rock-Solid Transit...
How Are You Doing as Your Board’s Chief Governing Partner?
One of the topics that Dave Stackrow (long-time Chair of the Board of New York’s Capital District Transportation Authority) and I are planning to...
K-12 Enterprise Part 3: Leyden District 212’s Partnership with A 1 Tool Company
This is the third article in our series looking at what we’re calling the “K-12 Enterprise.” We’ve defined the K-12 Enterprise as a public school...
The Chief of Staff Alternative To a Chief Operating Officer
The May 19 post at this blog explored the CEO-chief operating officer leadership structure, which has proved very effective in freeing up CEO time...
More on the K-12 Enterprise: Creating Satisfied Indirect Customers
Later today Superintendent Nick Polyak (Leyden School District 212, Illinois) will join Geoff Luther, the owner of A-l Tool Corporation, and Frank...