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Making Your Great New Leadership Experiment a Great Success in Your Organization: Three Steps to Sane Transformation

August 4, 2014 · by · in Authentic Leadership, Business Leadership, Creative Followership, Laughing about Leadership, Leadership Myths, Buzzwords and Theories, Leadership Training, Sustainable Leadership · 1 Comment

So, you’ve found a new leadership guru you want to follow! Excellent. Maybe you had a powerful transformation at a seminar, or read a mind-blowing book about active listening or  team-building strategies to empower innovation. Avoid the trap of enthusiastic failure! Use these three simple steps to Integrate, Test and Apply what you’ve learned about […]

Jack Hassard: Why Bill Gates Defends the Common Core

March 18, 2014 · by · in Popular Culture · Leave a comment

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
We have long known on this site that Bill Gates’  foundation underwrote every aspect of the Common Core standards. Mercedes Schneider has documented nearly $200 million in grants specifically for the writing, evaluation, review, implementation, and advocacy for the Common Core standards. Jack Hassard, a retired professor of…

Leaders Negotiating Badly: Bridging the “Cliff” (with help from Tom Toles)

December 6, 2012 · by · in Healing Leadership, Laughing about Leadership · Leave a comment

The budget deadline, aka “fiscal cliff” is testing our patience and the leadership qualities of Republicans and Democrats. The Republicans veer between pretending to want to negotiate… and coming to the table to negotiate while hoping negotiation is not necessary… to negotiating a position that it’s the other side’s fault, while admitting that it doesn’t […]