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Episode 63: The Top 10 Leadership Nuggets of 2023
I love year end top 10 lists!
This doesn’t happen as much anymore, but magazines like People and Newsweek used to come out with a special edition in mid-December.
This special issue would feature the Top 10 in...
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Episode 62: How To Escape Your Echo Chamber
Do you believe that the Earth is flat?
I can hear what you are saying: “Mark, I'm a college graduate. I am an educator. I have common sense. NO, I don't believe the Earth is flat!”
Just to be clear, I don’t believe...
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Episode 61: 5 Ways To Multiply Your Time
I’ve never really been a fan of crossword puzzles or Sudoku or riddles. Maybe that’s because I solve problems all day long and I would rather not do it recreationally. That said, I have a riddle for you:
I can't be...
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Episode 60: When Your Parents Complain, The First Problem Is Sometimes Not The Real Problem
I want to tell you a secret about the parents at your school.
Over the last 32 years, I have had thousands of meetings with parents. Many were in my office or on the phone, but some were on the bleachers in the Gym,...
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Episode 59: The 4 Biggest Lies That Most Private School Leaders Believe
“Cigarette smoking is no more ‘addictive’ than coffee, tea or Twinkies.”
—James W. Johnston, CEO of R.J. Reynolds Nabisco, April 14, 1994 before Congress
“I can say categorically that… no one in the White House staff,...
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Episode 58: Your Leadership Kryptonite And How To Avoid It
I was never really a big fan of Superman. I was more of a Spiderman fan when I was a kid.
Of course, Spiderman was actually Peter Parker. A nerdy kid from Queens that was always studying for a test, was usually broke...
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Episode 57: How To Create More "Friction" Between You And Your Email Inbox
When I was a kid, I used to LOVE it when it snowed. Snow days, sledding, building a snowman. So much fun!
But, when I turned 16, my love affair with snow ended. That’s because I had to start driving in the white...
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Episode 56: Do This When You Feel Like Giving Up
It was a Wednesday morning and I couldn’t get out of bed.
I don’t mean that I was tired and didn’t FEEL like getting out of bed.
I mean that I couldn’t get out of bed.
I was overwhelmed and discouraged and felt a...
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Episode 55: What If Your Head Of School Was A Social Media Influencer?
OK, I’ll admit it.
This is one of the strangest episode titles that I have had on the podcast so far.
I know that a lot of us roll our eyes when we hear the term “social media influencer”, because we think that term...
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Episode 54: Would you hang out with people that talk to you the way that you talk to yourself?
Would you hang out with people that talk to you the way that you talk to yourself?
Stop and think about your self-talk.
How do you talk to yourself when you mess up at work?
How do you talk to yourself when you let...
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Episode 53: The 5 Most Powerful Leadership Lessons From Atomic Habits
Over the last 32 years, I’ve read a lot of great leadership books. In fact, I made a Top 10 list of leadership books and you can check those out at www.theprivateschoolleader.com/top10
#4 on that list is Atomic Habits...
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Episode 52: The 5 Things That Are Probably True About The Parents At Your School
There are two kinds of people in your life.
If you just ate lunch and you are on your way to lead an important meeting, there are the kind of people that will tell you that you have broccoli in your teeth. And then...
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