Wisdom from Luke Sullivan – applied to life, grant writing, presentations and running an organization.
I read Luke Sullivan’s book Hey Whipple, Squeeze This and was amazed at how universally relevant his advice was. Here are some excerpts from the...
Read MoreAttention to detail. The Europeans sure do it right!
Maybe the Japanese do it right too, but I haven’t been to Japan. We recently came back from a little vacation in Germany and Italy and the first...
Read MoreWe all need approval and validation
I have developed a pretty thick skin (or so I like to think), but am still vulnerable when people appreciate our work 🙂We recently interviewed a pa...
Read MoreCrime in LAUSD schools
Our Urban School Needs Map project is humming along. The project is super cool with many far-reaching ramifications. The goal is to develop a visualiz...
Read MoreBeauty
I love beautiful things – paintings, photographs, flowers, mountains, melodies and writing. I try and share some of this appreciation along with...
Read MoreHow to start a used bookstore
While wandering in New Orleans (for the NSTA conference), I came across a lovely used bookstore (Crescent City Books). Since I am interested in develo...
Read MoreShould you pay students to go to school?
I just came back from the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) conference in New Orleans. It was not as intense as my last year’s experi...
Read MoreALOUD Business Forum: Fresh Approaches to Branding and Marketing
So I just went to a business forum event in downtown Los Angeles. It was great! Before the details and lessons that I picked up vanish, I’m goin...
Read MoreLone Warrior – Tribal Leadership
I have been reading “Tribal Leadership” that talks about the five stages of workplace culture. This is from an interview with Dave Logan (...
Read MoreProposal Writing and Pictures of Mountains
Ok! we are back in the big leagues again – 70 and more hours/week. Its mostly because I have started working on a big fat federal grant (due in ...
Read MoreWhere does the time go?
Weekly report # 4 and I am increasingly puzzled as to where all the time is going. I started keeping the Toggl reports a month ago and logged a respec...
Read MoreDo you think like a CEO?
I have been toying with the concept of “employee ownership” for a very long time and here are some thoughts. By now I have had more than 3...
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