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Posted on December 16, 2019 In Executive Writer Series

At the annual The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) conference in Boston earlier in the month, we had the opportunity to hear Richard Weissbourd, of […]

Posted on December 12, 2019 In Executive Writer Series

In my second post for the Resilience Initiative Executive Series entitled, “Resilience Needs the Equilibrium of Both/And,” I wrote about the importance of creating and […]

Posted on December 9, 2019 In Executive Writer Series

Like so many things, institutional resilience deepens when it is a BOTH/AND.

Posted on December 4, 2019 In Executive Writer Series

[For me, the definition of resilience is the ability to reveal one’s strengths clearly in the face of adversity.  Resilience doesn’t exist externally to us, […]

Posted on February 20, 2019 In CFO responsibilites, For Schools, Observations, Schools

Would you invest two million dollars to get $50,000 a year in return?                 I hope not! Would you invest a weeks’ time to save […]

Posted on February 20, 2019 In CFO responsibilites, For Schools, Observations, Schools

Those fish are all going to die. That is what happens when there are too many fish in the fish bowl…they die. Plain and simple, […]

Posted on February 20, 2019 In CFO responsibilites, For Schools, Observations

It is difficult—close to impossible—to navigate the subway system in Tokyo if you cannot read Japanese. No matter how smart you are, you need to […]

Posted on February 20, 2019 In For Schools, Insider, Observations

Stay on the Beam! That is what pilots did to stay on course. It was a radio beam…when they were on the beam it was […]