300 Words, 2 Minutes

Don't let misplaced obligation rob you of the drive and focus your employer demands and deserves.

Feel free to disrupt and innovate, when you’ve proven that you’ve kept the main thing, the main thing.

Life - and career - is too short to put up with poor service, neglect, and victimization.

Meet people where they are. Show them a pathway to success.

Meet people where they are. Show them a pathway to success.

It is incumbent upon you as a leader, manager, and educator to keep strategy front and center – at the water cooler, in the board room, and in the classroom.

So. We can boldly declare obsolete technologies to be Dead. Deceased. Gone to meet their maker. Singing with the Choir Eternal.

Pining for the Fjords.

Or – we can pragmatically realize that we must meet our teachers and staff where they are in their technological mastery, and focus instead on the goals of our teaching and instruction, rather than the uniformity and currency of our technology platforms.

We’re all unreliable narrators – at least to someone. Be objective, transparent, and authentic in your interactions with others, to minimize your bias.

It’s not enough to recognize opportunity. You have to be committed to do something with that knowledge.

The way one learns to solve problems, is by solving problems.

Learning, by Doing.