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When I began teaching leadership one of the traditional events students were asked to lead was a charity event. It makes sense, leaders should be charitable and help out the community. My students decided to create an event to help a popular local charity. During the week long event in December the students raised over $2500. Due to financial procedures a school district has to follow and the winter [...]

I have never like the word ‘leader’. The word seems both elitist and generic. I remember in elementary school we would elect two class leaders who would get to leave class and go to a secret meeting. I had no clue what a leader was, but leave class? I’m in! The teacher asked students who wanted to be leaders to stand up and she wrote our names on the [...]

The leadership wisdom of rats. The foundational mistake we make with leadership. Rats can play hide and seek. Inspired by YouTube videos of people playing hide and seek, Michael Brecht, a neuroscientist at Humboldt University of Berlin, set out to see if rats could learn to play as well. As humans, hide and seek may seem a simple game, but it is a complex game with boundaries, rules, roles, [...]