Leading a District Where Everyone Has Standing
A superintendent answers to a board, a community, a staff, and a set of statutory obligations that occasionally conflict. The job is largely the management of…
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Who Stays and Why
Young people leave rural places for reasons that are mostly accurate. What brings some of them back is narrower and more specific than communities generally assume.
Read →Why Training Partnerships Fail
The programme launches with everybody present and quietly stops within three years. The cause is nearly always the same: employers committed enthusiasm rather than a mechanism.
Read →Whether It Is a Skills Problem
Employers describe a shortage of trained people. Some of it is that. Some of it is a wage problem, a location problem, or a retention problem…
Read →Institutions That Report Late
Education and workforce institutions produce their results a decade after the decisions that caused them. Everything difficult about leading one follows from that lag.
Read →The Unwritten Compact
A firm and the place it operates in hold expectations of each other that nobody has recorded. The compact is invisible while it holds and expensive…
Read →Whether to Grow
Growth is treated as the default and it is a choice with costs. Deciding deliberately not to grow is a legitimate position that almost nobody states…
Read →Being the Largest Employer in a Small Place
When a firm is the main employer in a town, ordinary business decisions become community events. That does not change what the right decision is, and…
Read →The Second Generation
Ownership and capability are separate questions and are routinely settled as one. Most family firm failures at transition come from answering the second by reference to…
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