I’m reading a book on mental models. A chapter dedicated to evolution shares this quote: “Success is measured by persistence.”-Geerat Vermeij The thing about evolution is that you adapt or die. Not a bad reminder given the reality that schools and society...
If you show up at the same time, at the same place, doing the same thing you are consistent. Consistency builds trust. The trust earned by your consistency is then evaluated by the quality of what you are putting into the universe. That didn’t work out well for...
Effective leaders are proactive. I admire how quickly leaders around the world got remote learning up and running. Now they need to operate with one foot in the present and another foot in the future preparing for what is to come. In the mastermind, we...
“If you want to be a good reader, read, or a good writer, write. But if you pass thirty days without reading and turn to something else, you’ll notice the consequences.”-Epictetus The mastermind is about exposure. Exposure to great leaders. This encourages and...
Right now there are roughly 100 leaders I serve in the mastermind, roughly the size of many school faculties. Checking-in during this crisis is very important, but maybe not doable at scale with intention. So what could you do? Use the org chart. As principal, focus...
A few things to know about our mastermind experience. If you agree to these ideas, you are welcome in our community. I’m posting these in public because it’s important to understand how you want people to show up during your online meetings. Right now...