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Colleagues,
In addition to the ethical challenges I raised yesterday, the current environment presents unique leadership challenges:
During disruption, actual improvement becomes unsustainable. When leadership becomes about safety *or* legality, how do I help you? When disruption makes growth impossible, how do I help you? When expressing core ethical values feels subversive, how do I help you? Cheers! Frederick
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Colleagues, Yesterday I ended by noting that our shared values of respecting others and working to create a better world for them makes us a community. And this particular community is a diverse one. We are teachers, social workers, vice presidents of sales, non-profit executive directors, and leaders (and, of course, assistant principals 😉). I want to be inclusive – to reach a diverse audience of leaders. Yet, that very notion is under assault. Here's the conundrum as I see it:
How do we navigate that conflict? In today’s podcast episode, we unpack what turbulence is, how it fits with the six dimensions model, and start to think a little about how as leaders we respond to keep everybody safe and create better outcomes for kids. You can listen here. Thanks again to IXL for sponsoring today's episode!  Cheers!
Frederick Colleagues,
This week's emails are five parts of a larger message. I've rewritten this letter multiple times and can't find a way to express succinctly what I am feeling. I have never viewed my work as politically motivated and the only agenda I have tried to advance is that we treat each other with respect and work to make this world better for the people in it. No single political party or ideology has an exclusive lock on those values. They are nearly universal, claimed by all faiths and all political movements. If you disagreed with those two fundamental principles - respecting people and working to create a better world for them - you would not have stayed on this list of over 500 people. We share a similar commitment, and that makes us a community. Cheers! Frederick Colleagues,
MVP: Get out! I have a really cool greenhouse, but over the past two months it has been too cold to do much, so I haven’t bothered to go out. This past weekend was warmer and I made my way out there for the first time in too long. I had a bunch of plants overwintering in the greenhouse. Some were fine (rosemary), others were… thirsty 🥺 I just forgot about them, because I hadn’t gone out. There are people we lead, influence, and care for who are like the plants in my greenhouse – if we don’t get out, we forget about them. Who do you need to get out and visit with? Cheers! Frederick |
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