It is not the role of the people we lead to make us look good. It is our role as leaders to make them look good. That is, it is our role as leaders to provide every resource and opportunity our team needs to succeed in its tasks. [Read more…] about The Role of Leadership
Schools Work
Malcom Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success isn’t a book about education. But he comes to a distinctly profound conclusion about education in chapter nine, “Marita’s Bargain.”
The Value of Arts Education
The American Psychological Association recently published an article that repeats what we already know: that, on average, music students perform better in their non-music classes than non-music students do. Arts educators and institutions have shared this article in droves recently. As arts educators, we know why music students perform better in their non-music classes than their peers. Music students have to think in multi-dimensional ways. They have to be able to take a chord and analyze and think about it and visualize it like Tony Stark was able to visualize holographic 3D models of his next invention. Music students have to learn perseverance; one can’t rehearse a four-measure phrase for an hour without some measure of stick-with-itness. But… [Read more…] about The Value of Arts Education
Tracking Goals in OmniFocus
BLUF: You can use OmniFocus (or your task management app of choice) to track your quarterly and annual goals. If you use Michael Hyatt’s Full Focus Planner, the information in this post works perfectly with an OmniFocus/FFP hybrid set up. [Read more…] about Tracking Goals in OmniFocus
Using OmniFocus with the Full Focus Planner
BLUF: Stay focused and avoid the distraction of technology throughout the week by using OmniFocus’s Forecast perspective in your weekly review to enter appointments and tasks for your upcoming week into your Full Focus Planner.
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