Later today Superintendent Nick Polyak (Leyden School District 212, Illinois) will join Geoff Luther, the owner of A-l Tool Corporation, and Frank...
Month: June 2017
The CEO-COO Leadership Team at the Top
A two-person executive office consisting of a chief executive officer and chief operating officer (typically known as “president”) is a staple in...
Two Defining Traits of Successful Chiefs of Staff
The June 15 article at this blog makes the case for the chief of staff position in the CEO’s office as a viable alternative to the CEO-chief...
Peers Presenting to Peers: a Powerful Change Tool
It definitely wasn’t your traditional reporting-back session on June 6 in Cleveland. Board President George Dixon and...
Leading the K-12 Enterprise
In Cleveland recently to facilitate a daylong board retreat, I dropped by the administrative headquarters of the Cleveland Metropolitan School...
The Chief of Staff Alternative To the CEO-COO Structure
The two most recent articles at this blog have explored the CEO-chief operating officer leadership structure, which has proved very effective in...
Aurora Jackson: a Board-Savvy CEO at the Helm at Lane Transit District
Listening to Aurora Jackson (“A.J.”) describe how she’d gone about building a solid partnership with her new board at the Lane Transit District...