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Colleagues,
How do I help you?
This list has over 500 members. I routinely hear from about 5% of you. Please, give me some guidance, expand my perspective, and help me be better at supporting you. If you have never replied to one of my messages, now would be a great time. Please. You can click here or simply reply. Your leadership gives meaning to my work. I hope we can keep this partnership going. Cheers! Frederick
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Colleagues,
How do I help you? I think my path forward is to shift the focus from how to improve organizations to how to protect organizations and how to lead them through times of disruption. But that feels so sad. I'd like to hear from you. The daily email is going to change, and I would like that change to be towards greater support of your leadership. I'll provide prompts tomorrow, but if you want to share what is on your heart and mind right now, you can click here or just reply to this email. Cheers! Frederick 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 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 |
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