What Pay Signals
Employers benchmark against their own history and conclude the labour market has become unreasonable. The rate a person can actually earn is a fact about the…
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Leader profiles, participant spotlights, leadership lessons, and updates from across the Idaho Leaders network.
Designing a Programme That Might Work
Formal mentoring programmes fail for structural reasons rather than through poor execution. A programme that understands what it can and cannot supply is worth running; most…
Read →Serving Without a Seat
Most of the useful work around a public body is done by people who hold no position. It is unfilled, it requires no election, and almost…
Read →Explaining a Decision People Will Not Like
A public body cannot make everybody agree and can determine whether people believe the decision was reached honestly. Those are different objectives and only the second…
Read →When the Purpose Has Moved
Institutions outlive the conditions they were built for. The question is whether anybody notices, and the people best positioned to notice have the strongest reasons not…
Read →Why People Comply When They Do Not Have To
Institutions run almost entirely on voluntary compliance. Enforcement exists for the residual, and an institution that has to rely on it has already lost the thing…
Read →Starting Something That Outlasts You
Most new civic efforts end with the person who started them. The ones that persist were built differently from the beginning, and the differences are small…
Read →The Volunteer Who Cannot Be Replaced
Every small district has one person holding it together without pay. The board's obligation is not gratitude. It is to end the arrangement that made one…
Read →The Principal Who Cannot Be Everywhere
A principal is a supervisor of professionals, a manager of a building, and the person every difficulty in the community eventually reaches. The role has no…
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