by Jim Knight | Feb 23, 2011 | Improving Instruction |
When I read Robert Sutton’s Good Boss, Bad Boss the parallels between being a bad or good boss and being a bad or good teacher jumped up and bit me page after page. Some of those points are mentioned in my previous four columns. I’ll highlight five more of Sutton’s...
by Jim Knight | Feb 15, 2011 | Improving Instruction, School Reform |
In Good Boss, Bad Boss, Robert Sutton shares the ideas of one of my heros, David Kelly, the founder and chairman of IDEO. Dr. Sutton writes as follows: David [Kelly] sees his job, or the job of any boss, as enabling people to experience dignity and joy as they travel...
by Jim Knight | Feb 10, 2011 | Improving Instruction, Professional Learning |
In Good Boss, Bad Boss, Robert Sutton writes that one characteristic of good bosses is that they carefully balance the amount of control they exert over versus the freedom they provide for their subordinates. Too much control stifles creativity and enthusiasm. Too...
by Jim Knight | Feb 6, 2011 | Improving Instruction |
I started reading Robert Sutton’s new book Good Boss, Bad Boss because (a) I was interested in what the book might teach me about leadership in organizations, and (b) because I have found all of Sutton’s books to be insightful, practical, and helpful (and, I might...
by Jim Knight | Jan 27, 2011 | Professional Learning |
We had a conversation about “bad teachers” in my workshop the other day. President Obama used the term in his state of the union address, and fresh from reading Robert Sutton’s book Good Boss, Bad Boss, I had mentioned my plan to write a series of columns exploring...
