That One Thing - A Friendly Mirror for School Leaders
It’s been on your To-Do List for a long time. It’s not a small task you can simply hand off, so you continue to cut and paste it onto each new To-Do List. You promise yourself you’ll deal with it. But you don’t. I get it. I’ve been there. You run through the reasons you haven’t dealt with it: too much work, politically dangerous, too expensive, difficult to implement, people won’t accept it, you’re already juggling a million balls; maybe it’s not that important – or – maybe it’s only important to just a few people. Perhaps you’ve made a few small moves that have bought you some time and lowered the temperature. But it’s still on your list for a reason. And there are costs to leaving something this important unresolved. · The people who need this product, service, or program are still waiting for you to act · You carry the professional and psychological weight of knowing there is something important you need to address. · ...