http://geniusone.com/blog/does-your-it-stop-you/ Since two decades author and leadership consultant Frank Kanu helps top managers and executives to improve success ratios and productivity. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:15:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://geniusone.com/blog/does-your-it-stop-you/#comment-2939 EdEthic Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:30:05 +0000 http://geniusone.com/blog/does-your-it-stop-you/#comment-2939 Politicians (read school board members) are among the least competent to have a sense of worth in terms of valuable personnel to the achievment of a district's mission. Dollars shaved from a school budget related to tax savings equals votes; there is no recognition of what the cost amounts to in terms of lost momentum in a change process that is addressing educational gaps or reforms that strive to identify and meet the needs of every student. Case studies from the last 10 years have shown that the first 'stumble' into an abyss of decline is the lopping of school budgets by means of destaffing personnel. Teams, faculties and cultures are many times devastated, leading to voluntary exodus of more valuable personnel. This many times leads to a halt, then a decline in student achievement, then school/district effectiveness/value to the community, which initiates parents' search for other educational/living options. In most of these communities, the tax savings is the last benefit for many years due to the decline of the economy/tax base because of the parent-flight. The economic recovery in many of the districts/communities served by boards with this mindset takes decades...and the school systems' recovery (if ever) take even longer. Case studies from the last 10 years have shown that the first ’stumble’ into an abyss of decline is the lopping of school budgets by means of destaffing personnel. Teams, faculties and cultures are many times devastated, leading to voluntary exodus of more valuable personnel. This many times leads to a halt, then a decline in student achievement, then school/district effectiveness/value to the community, which initiates parents’ search for other educational/living options. In most of these communities, the tax savings is the last benefit for many years due to the decline of the economy/tax base because of the parent-flight. The economic recovery in many of the districts/communities served by boards with this mindset takes decades…and the school systems’ recovery (if ever) take even longer.
]]> http://geniusone.com/blog/does-your-it-stop-you/#comment-2886 EdEthic Mon, 05 Jun 2006 03:28:18 +0000 http://geniusone.com/blog/does-your-it-stop-you/#comment-2886 There needs to be a 'universal' examination of what price in terms of excellence is forfeited by the growing sub-current religion of efficiency. Latest business-speak centers around "efficiency of profitability" ...being maximized through destaffing personnel...If the team is an excellent team, and the group an excellent group, what price in EXCELLENCE must be paid for efficient profitability. Organizations, public and private, suffer this fate when the leadership has no moral/ethical commitment to nurturing positive organizational culture. Efficiency pays it dividends to the upper strata of leadership despite the lack of ethic, while the lower levels suffer to subsist by virtue of the deteriorating decline in excellence and cultural staying power.
Organizations, public and private, suffer this fate when the leadership has no moral/ethical commitment to nurturing positive organizational culture.

Efficiency pays it dividends to the upper strata of leadership despite the lack of ethic, while the lower levels suffer to subsist by virtue of the deteriorating decline in excellence and cultural staying power.
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