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Monthly Archives: September 2011
The unbearable weight of choosing between great and great!
It was Albert Camus who wrote that ‘life is a sum of all your choices’. It is a bit like that in leading a school too: the quality of your team is the sum of all your choices while doing … Continue reading
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The ‘3 Month Letter’ – to Matric Parents
How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? Dr. Seuss For your sons, the … Continue reading
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The left hand column….a path to dialogue
The left hand column…..a path to dialogue as published in The Dance of Change. Step 1: Choosing a Problem Select a difficult problem you’ve been involved with during the last month or so, the kind of tough, interpersonal difficulty that … Continue reading
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Drawing forth personal vision
Preparing to do the exercise This exercise begins informally. You sit down and “make up” a few ideas about your aims, writing them on paper, in a notebook, or with your BB or iPad. No one else need ever see … Continue reading
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Questions and Reflections for Deputy Head’s Conference delegates
Questions and Reflections for Deputy Head’s Conference delegates “Our mental models determine not only how we make sense of the world, but how we take action” (P Senge) "You may never know what results come of your action, but if … Continue reading
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An Interview with Peter Senge
Peter Senge responds to some common questions about organizational learning Q: In your book The Fifth Discipline you describe five disciplines that you believe are important for creating learning organizations. What is a learning organization? Like any term that gets … Continue reading
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