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Some thoughts about insights and visions
- Posted on 3rd August 2009
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- by John Corrigan
I am writing this on a plane between England and Australia. I have been in England doing a mix of work and marketing, essentially talking with a lot of people about our work and testing new ways of both articulating what we do and delivering it. As this was happening [...]
Continue reading...Teachers as leaders
- Posted on 30th June 2009
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- by John Corrigan
Our research shows clearly that leadership skills are learnable, this has very important ramifications. The most recent definitions of leadership describe leaders as people who create the conditions for others to succeed. The example par excellence of this ought to be teachers – as parents we want their whole focus [...]
Continue reading...Decision-making and organisation
- Posted on 21st June 2009
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- by John Corrigan
Jonah Lehrer’s book the Decisive Moment gives strong insight into how we make decisions. Insight that helps to explain why we are at a turning point in human and societal development. The instinctive decisions related to survival come out of our reptilian brain and are reasonably obvious. If we are [...]
Continue reading...Like/dislike and successful organisations
- Posted on 5th June 2009
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- by John Corrigan
A successful leader creates the conditions for others to succeed. People are most able to succeed – and acquire the skills they need to succeed – when they are in a mind state of optimism, collaboration, creativity and growth. Of course, organisations can be successful with only a proportion of [...]
Continue reading...What if all teachers were outstanding …
- Posted on 27th May 2009
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- by John Corrigan
Most adults who have been successful in life can point to, on average, two teachers who made a significant impact on their life’s course. Most adults will have had between 30 and 50 teachers during their school careers so this implies that only 4 – 6% of teachers had this [...]
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