Podcast Episodes

Episode 63: The Top 10 Leadership Nuggets of 2023

I love year end top 10 lists!

This doesn’t happen as much anymore, but magazines like People and Newsweek used to come out with a special edition in …

2 years, 3 months ago

Episode 62: How To Escape Your Echo Chamber

Do you believe that the Earth is flat?

I can hear what you are saying: “Mark, I'm a college graduate. I am an educator. I have common sense. NO, I do…

2 years, 3 months ago

Episode 61: 5 Ways To Multiply Your Time

I’ve never really been a fan of crossword puzzles or Sudoku or riddles. Maybe that’s because I solve problems all day long and I would rather not do …

2 years, 4 months ago

Episode 60: When Your Parents Complain, The First Problem Is Sometimes Not The Real Problem

I want to tell you a secret about the parents at your school.

Over the last 32 years, I have had thousands of meetings with parents. Many were in my …

2 years, 4 months ago

Episode 59: The 4 Biggest Lies That Most Private School Leaders Believe

“Cigarette smoking is no more ‘addictive’ than coffee, tea or Twinkies.”

—James W. Johnston, CEO of R.J. Reynolds Nabisco, April 14, 1994 before Cong…

2 years, 4 months ago

Episode 58: Your Leadership Kryptonite And How To Avoid It

I was never really a big fan of Superman. I was more of a Spiderman fan when I was a kid.

Of course, Spiderman was actually Peter Parker. A nerdy kid…

2 years, 4 months ago

Episode 57: How To Create More "Friction" Between You And Your Email Inbox

When I was a kid, I used to LOVE it when it snowed. Snow days, sledding, building a snowman. So much fun!

But, when I turned 16, my love affair with …

2 years, 5 months ago

Episode 56: Do This When You Feel Like Giving Up

It was a Wednesday morning and I couldn’t get out of bed.

I don’t mean that I was tired and didn’t FEEL like getting out of bed.

I mean that I couldn…

2 years, 5 months ago

Episode 55: What If Your Head Of School Was A Social Media Influencer?

OK, I’ll admit it.

This is one of the strangest episode titles that I have had on the podcast so far.

I know that a lot of us roll our eyes when we h…

2 years, 5 months ago

Episode 54: Would you hang out with people that talk to you the way that you talk to yourself?

Would you hang out with people that talk to you the way that you talk to yourself?

Stop and think about your self-talk.

2 years, 5 months ago