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Leaders
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Our schools. Their future. Your choice.
Eighty two candidates are standing in Thursday’s Isle of Man General Election. I read every manifesto I could find, and went looking for several I never…
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Keeping A Clean Sheet
Four games into the season my team have not scored a goal. Two points, seventeenth, after a three hundred million pound rebuild. But look at the…
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The Cost Nobody Measures
At the O2 this week I watched Ariana Grande get lifted above twenty thousand people on rigging that gets load-tested and certified before every show. Leadership…
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Keep Moving
Tower Bridge looks ceremonial. A panel inside points out that if it stopped operating, London’s traffic would stop with it. Governing bodies look ceremonial too, and…
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The Invisible Leaders
Front of house, PA to the head, finance, comms, safeguarding admin, the furious parent and the frightened one. That’s a school administrator on a Monday morning,…
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Promoted for the Wrong Thing
Somebody is a very good teacher, so we make them a leader. Then we assess them on their subject data and never check the thing we…