It takes a monster to kill children. But to watch monsters kill children again and again and do nothing isn’t just insanity—it’s inhumanity.

Leadership

The more lines of difference you are working across, the more intentional you have to be about building trust-based relationships.

The first minute of this is gold: growth mindset + taking personal responsibility for whether your players learn.

This 🧵 is great. Inclusion matters for your team too.

One of the best leaders I’ve had the pleasure to work with, in any sector. Congratulations Chris, this is so very well deserved.

Thanks Ravi Gupta Doug Lemov Ryan Hill for having me on!

Check out the good news from Smith Urban Nature Preschool , a diverse by design, urban nature preschool opening in Fairmount Park this fall. Please consider supporting this great cause!

BREAKING: Lion says “it’s not hard to be a gazelle” lol smh billypenn.com/2023/07/26/phi…

My latest blog: How do we get the best out of every student, every athlete we work with? mannella-consulting.com/all-of-us-will…

Cognitive Psychologist Daniel Willingham says that “memory is the residue of thought.” My latest piece tackles a source of frustration for anyone who is trying to increase the amount of thinking in their room: What if we ask a question, and no one answers? mannella-consulting.com/why-wont-anyon…

“The persistent are attached to the goal. The obstinate are attached to their ideas about how to reach it.” Really good stuff from Paul Graham (h/t to Tim Ferriss for including it in his 5 bullets today) paulgraham.com/persistence.ht…

How do you know whether you have a Learning Culture? Look for the little red machine… mannella-consulting.com/how-do-you-bui…

Worth the read: thegrowtheq.com/why-nikes-olym…

When we think of great leaders, we often think of the “courage of our convictions” and “leading with values”, but a leader’s decisions will only be as good as their information. So how do we get better information? Lead more like Horton. mannella-consulting.com/better-leaders…