This is a blatant cut-and-paste job on my part of a post by educator Danny Steele. I’ve adopted a couple of thoughts from reading about Teach for America, an innovative teacher training program that recruits non-traditional candidates to teach underserved students in impoverished areas. The thoughts are: “Teaching is leadership.” The teacher is committed to […]

What’s an all-star performance to you? Would the folks you encounter – inside and outside the organization – refer to you as an all-star? I had an appointment with the eye doctor yesterday. In the examination room was a 3 x 5 card where the leaders of the practice invited anyone to write down an […]

It’s easy to do. You wake up. Move into your routine. Go through the motions. Get to work. Do what’s in front of you. All around you, everyone is doing the same. But what if each changed it just a bit? You get up. Embrace the day. Purposefully, intentionally decide what you can do to […]

“You may not get to choose where you go, but you always get to choose how you’ll travel. We can decide to engage our challenges with passion, to fully commit to a goal, to compete with our past and improve, to overcome the setbacks we face, and to enjoy the journey along the way.” – […]