Love Your Employees
Connect Peers with Purpose
Capacity Building Prevails
Learning is the Work
Transparency Rules
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The average human prefers to be directed, dislikes responsibility, is unambiguous, and desires security above everything else. (p21)
What is one of McGregor's Theory X Assumptions?
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Purposeful peer interaction rather than top-down direction from the hierarchy. (p41)
What is Fullan's key to achieving a simultaneously tight-loose organization?
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This concerns competencies, resources and motivation. (p57)
What is capacity building?
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Integration of the precision needed for the consistent performance (using what we already know) with the new learning required for continuous improvement. (p76)
What is Fullan's secret behind "learning is the work?"
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Clear and continuous display of results. (p99)
What is effective transparency?
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The average person learns under proper conditions not only to accept but to seek responsibility. (p22)
What is one of McGregor's Theory Y Assumptions?
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"A mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members' striving for unanimity overrides their motivation to realistically appraise alternate courses of action." (p44)
What is Janis' Groupthink
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Leading through criticism and punitive consequences. (p58)
What is Fullan's judgmentalism?
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Gawande says that making improvements under difficult circumstances tend to cultivate these habits. (p77)
What are "diligence," "doing it right," and "ingenuity?"
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The childhood tale that Michael Fullan uses to describe openness, communication, and accountability.
What is the Emperor's New Clothes?
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Integrating the left brain's logic that the customer should save money with the emotional expectations of the right brain that style and a pleasant experience are essential. (p26)
What is one of Target's secrets to success?
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Technology and the global web; horizontal collaboration and value-creation processes and habits; and the participation of three billion people previously excluded from the playing field. (p42)
What are Friedman's conditions in the flat world?
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"People hjave built quite successful careers -- describing the hill, measuring the hill, walking around the hill, taking pictures of the hill, and so forth. Sooner or later, somebody needs to actually climb the hill." (p63)
What is Pfeffer and Sutton's knowing-doing gap?
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It's "philosophy is every team leader and manager is a teacher first." (p87)
What is Toyota?
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Because it is both inevitable and essential OR 1. it is going to do so whether we like it or not 2. it is a good thing on balance 3. it is a tool for improvement 4. the credibility and long-term survival of organizations are dependent on public confidence. (p99)
What are the reasons that "transparency rules?"
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The involvement of everyone in a company in meaningful pursuits that transcend the bottom line. (p30)
What is Fullan's Secret One in a nutshell?
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All stakeholders are rallying around a higher purpose' knowledge flows as people pursue and continuously learn what works best; and identifying with an entitiy larger than oneself expands the self, with powerful consequences.
What is Fullan's We-We Solution?
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"High overall level of literacy and numeracy, strong interpersonal and communication skills, willingness to learn, motivation to teach, and the love of enabling children to learn."
What are common recruitment screening characteristics among school districts in Finland, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea?
400
This is where the work is meaningful and workders connect their own values to the overall purpose of the company...they help people get better and better at what they do and what they can accomplish day after day.
What is Fullan's "good farm?"
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A management method where nearly all decision making is carried out publicly. (Ppt; Ferebee/Osteen)
What is radical transparency?
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Strategic Plan Development Process, Administrative Retreat and Employee Recognition (add two others)
Along with _____ and _____, what are ways that we're already integrating Secret One (Loving Our Employees) into DPS practices?
500
Departmental Town Hall Meetings; Principals' Meetings, Superintendent's Councils (add two others).
Along with _____ and ______, what are ways that we are already integrating Secret Two (Connecting Peers with Purpose) into DPS practices?
500
Administrative Team Building, Short-term Quick Wins + Long-term planning, Core Leadership vs. Top-to-Bottom (add two others).
Along with _____ and ______, what are ways that we are already integrating Secret Three (Capacity Building Prevails) into DPS practices?
500
Six Secrets of Success Book Study, Service Learning Discovery (add two others)
Along with _____ and ______, what are ways that we are already integrating Secret Four (Learning is the Work) into DPS practices?
500
Superintendent's e-mails to staff, Superintendent's Blog, televised Board of Education meetings (add two others).
Along with _____ and ______, what are ways that we are already integrating Secret Five (Transparency Rules) into DPS practices?
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