THREE BIG CHALLENGES IN TEAM LEADERSHIP
When these conditions are present to any significant degree, you and your team will definitely be blocked from being effective and productive. These three obstacles are closely related through a common factor that, if dealt with separately, could resolve all three. That common factor is FEAR. Patrick Lencioni and Kensuke Okabayashi only use the word
0A NEW SCHOOL MODEL: The Teaching Hospital
I am indebted to the Knight Foundation and Eric Newton for their presentation in November, 2013, to a group of Dutch journalists in Amsterdam. The content regarding K-12 schools is mine and I take responsibility for any mistakes, misunderstanding or errors in laying out a design for these kinds of schools* Gary R. Gruber, Ph.D.
0MORTALITY and the GIFT OF TIME
Atul Gawande’s book, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, published just a year ago, takes a good look at how we, and the medical community, deal with people in the later years of their lives. For those of us with aging parents or who ourselves are already past the midpoint, whatever that
0TEN LESSONS LEARNED IN A 50-YEAR CAREER
Keep learning alive – Commit to becoming a life-long learner and whether or not you are an early adopter, consider how the world has changed and you along with it. If you are not growing and changing you are falling behind because to stand still is to lose ground. You can participate in learning challenges
0FEAR, FAITH and SPIRIT
The thoughts below come from the notion of fear and faith being perfectly correlated, inversely. The more you have of one, the less you have of the other. Paralyzed by FEAR Fear of admitting failure or of having made a mistake Fear of losing what is most important Fear of what others think or
0Personal Power, Influence and Changing the Status Quo
In most organizations there is a prevailing culture that is either receptive to creative change or resistant to it. As someone who might wish to influence change that you believe would improve the overall performance and position of your organization, it might help you to know how best to do that. Everyone has qualities
0LIVING AND DYING WELL
Assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case.” Annie Dillard, On Writing, p. 68 At age 41 I had an epiphany about my own mortality. I was leaving my office, driving through a parking lot toward the main street. I had to stop the car as
0RETIREMENT, REFLECTION, RENEWAL
About 6 years ago I wrote my “official” letter of retirement after 12 years of working in association with a fine and well-educated group of professional colleagues. I had the liberty and benefit of a “home office” in northern New Mexico during that time although that required a fair amount of travel. It’s the old
0WALKING INTO THE WOODS, INTO THE HILLS
Like Thoreau and Bill Bryson, I took myself into the woods today, mostly for a walk up and down the hills, for the clear, cool air, the views of the distant mountains and landscapes. There is nothing quite like a walk among the trees, the juniper, piñon, aspen and ponderosas around here. They seem like
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