A superintendent called me recently, asking if I’d be interested in presenting a governance training workshop for her school board. She explained...
Year: 2020
Crises Demand Energizers-in-Chief at All Levels
This post first appeared in March 2020 as the pandemic still afflicting our nation was in its early stages. In light of the tremendous positive...
Hitting the Ground Running With Your New Board: The Board Chair-CEO Partnership
In the video interview featured in last week’s post at this blog, Jeff Finkle and Craig Richard astutely observe that one of the key building blocks...
Board Spear Carriers: Protecting the Superintendent’s Line of Credit
Last week’s post at this blog features my video interview with Dave Schuler, Lead Teacher of AASA’s Aspiring Superintendents Academy and former AASA...
Board Spear Carriers: Protecting the CEO’s Line of Credit
Over the course of my 30-plus years of work with public transit boards and their CEOs, I’ve learned that executives aspiring to take the helm of a...
Jeff Finkle and Craig Richard on Hitting the Ground Running With Your New Board
Our readers are no doubt aware of our recent decision to focus our Extraordinary CEO blog on leadership in the economic and...
Traveling the Road Less Traveled: a Conversation with Change Master Ben Limmer
In my book Leading Out-of-the-Box Change (Governance Edge, 2012), I call really significant, self-planned and self-managed innovation and change a...
David Schuler on Preparing Aspiring Superintendents for the Top Spot
In addition to serving as superintendent of Illinois High School District 214, Dave Schuler dedicates countless hours to making this true tale of...
Joanna Pinkerton and Emille Williams Discuss the CEO-COO Partnership at COTA
In the video interview I recorded with them a couple of weeks ago, Joanna Pinkerton, President/CEO of the Central Ohio...
Recruiting a Really Board-Savvy Superintendent
Experience has taught me – and I’m sure many if not most of this blog’s readers – that the more board-savvy its superintendent, the more effective a...