Diversity: what’s the point?
I recently participated in a conversation on BAM! Radio entitled “All The Children Are White. So What?” The main guest was Louise Derman-Sparks, a professor emertius at Pacific Oaks College in...
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When should a leader apologize?
To apologize or not to apologize, that is the question. It’s not quite the question Hamlet asks himself, but it is a question facing leaders on a regular basis. When is an apology necessary? When might...
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The transformative power of failure?
Can failure transform us in important — and healthy — ways? Should we champion failure as much as we do success? Is failure really just success by another name? And in education, should we learn not...
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Building castles in the air: Visionary leadership
It’s hard to read Henry David Thoreau these days — almost 150 years after his death — and not think, “How quaint! How clichéd!” It’s equally hard to remember that Thoreau’s insights weren’t considered...
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Are age and experience overrated when it comes to leadership?
Studies show that children who can delay gratification -- by resisting marshmallows -- are more successful as adults than those who can't (courtesy of Smith609) Age and experience: How much do they...
View ArticleOf bosses, both good and bad
“All good bosses are alike; each bad boss is bad in his own way.” Tolstoy this isn’t. Nonetheless, it serves reasonably well as a distillation of recent research on leadership. Good bosses tend to do a...
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