By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker August 03, 2013 I thought keeping a journal — a diary — was for girls, or that it was an exercise in narcissistic navel-gazing. I am not sure where I got those notions. Perhaps I absorbed them from television shows or movies where the majority of journal keepers
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker July 12, 2013 Meetings are powerful. Good meetings forge strong relationships, clarify objectives, solve problems, and spur innovation. Bad meetings are terrible. They frustrate those in attendance, sap energy and enthusiasm, and waste precious time and money. Few people look forward to meetings because most meetings
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker July 06, 2013 This article has been adapted from an article of the same name posted on About.Com: Grammar and Composition. How you communicate is essential for your effectiveness as a leader. Spending a few minutes reflecting on how to improve your communications can enhance
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker June 15, 2013 “That was a waste of time!” I have often muttered those words to myself after sitting through a workshop. I walk in hoping the workshop will be different from so many others—engaging, informative, and practical. I usually emerge disappointed and frustrated. That
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker June 15, 2013 “That was a waste of time!” I have often muttered those words to myself after sitting through a workshop. I walk in hoping the workshop will be different from so many others—engaging, informative, and practical. I usually emerge disappointed and frustrated. That
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker June 08, 2013 By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker In my previous two posts in this series — Part 1: Why I Went Paperless: There Had to Be a Better Way and Part 2: How I Went Paperless: What I Use — I explained why I went paperless and the
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker June 01, 2013 By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker In my previous post — Part 1: Why I Went Paperless: There Had to Be a Better Way — I explained what motivated me to go paperless and my specific goals. Below is a view of my computer desktop: just as
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker May 25, 2013 This is my office. I did not clean it up for this article. I now function without paper. I will never go back, and I believe that if you give this a try, you will not either. I am sharing why I went
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker May 18, 2013 I am blessed. Even though we serve nearly 2,000 students representing 1,200 families, I have few disgruntled or complaining parents. This is a reflection of God’s great blessings on the school and a tribute to our fine teachers, coaches, and
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker May 03, 2013 Cruising at thirty thousand feet and intensively absorbed in my work, I was startled by the sudden outburst of fearful crying from a three-year-old girl frantically running down the aisle of the plane. Her brown eyes were wide with fear and her face
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker April 07, 2013 Soviet dissident and author Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote this about a fellow prisoner in the Soviet gulag during the Communist era: Before the war Anatoly Vasilyevich had graduated from a teachers’ college, where he had specialized in literature. Like me, he now had about
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker December 08, 2012 When Your Idea Looks Like a Pig Have you ever had an idea for the future of your school but others were not buying it? I hope so. Leaders who are leading and not merely managing focus on the future, asking, “What should