By Anna Bryan The Good Idea At the beginning of September last year, I wrote an encouragement for school leaders seeking tangible action steps for maximizing commitment toward change during one of the most critical seasons of our school year. At this point, most of us are about a month into the school year and our change initiatives are in full swing. We spent the summer analyzing data and stakeholder feedback, setting purpose-driven goals related […]
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The Middle Season: Thriving All the Way Through Change
By Anna Bryan This summer, we have reposted Anna Bryan’s articles on Adaptive Change as reminders that change is hard, important, messy, necessary, and can be managed. In this last post, The Middle Season: Thriving All the Way through Change she reminds us of the energy we have for change at the beginning of the school year, but how in November and December the momentum dissipates, or we can find ourselves lost in the mess. […]
The Middle Season: Thriving All the Way Through Change
By Anna Surratt The Middle Season In my last post, I offered encouragement to school leaders endeavoring on change initiatives at the beginning of the school year. While I hope that the encouragement from that post inspired a strong start to the school year, I know very personally that we are in a much different season as we head into the second semester of school. In this Harvard Business Review article, Rosabeth Moss Kanter calls […]