Category : Business and leadership
Embedment and Diagnosis as Keys to Leading Change
Todd M. Warner’s recent manifesto on the Change This website, “Rethinking Execution: The Salsa Scale of Embedment,” makes two crucial points that are often neglected by those seeking to effect change in independent and international schools. First, Warner writes about … READ MORE
Just How Different Are You?
With the totally expected news that Barney’s New York is filing for bankruptcy protection, one more bricks-and-mortar store finds itself in a tight spot from the ongoing restructuring of the American retail sector. What is notable about Barney’s is the … READ MORE
What a Stray In-N-Out Burger Means for Your School
We have long said that what people don’t know they make up, often in the most extreme and dramatic way possible. That’s we humans do as sense-making beings. This truism applies to parent, teachers, alumni and anyone with a stake … READ MORE
Transcending the Founder: A Necessary, If Fraught, Step for Schools
Every founder’s dream is to create a school that transcends them, that endures long after they are gone. My son attended The Wilson School in St. Louis for elementary school, and its creation story was as Miss Wilson’s School, begun … READ MORE
Why It Is Hard for a School to Become a Hot Brand (and what might be a better goal)
Ad Age is out with an updated list of “America’s Hottest Brands,” and the 2019 set (the last list appeared in 2011) is instructive in multiple ways. Not the least of the ways is how new the brands are—only two … READ MORE
Social Purpose, Woke-Washing, and Your School
The recent Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for the the advertising, media and communications fields was notable in a number of ways, but perhaps the most salient was the earnestness and seriousness of the Grand Prix awards. Missing, according … READ MORE