What decisions, systems and leadership actions produce an organization worth replicating?

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REPLICATION =
PLAN + PREPARE + EXECUTE
OHIO ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS
OCTOBER 16, 2014
SHERRY A. LAMBERTSON
JAMES N. GOENNER, PH.D

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Goals for Today
Challenge Your Thinking
Sharpen Our Focus
Discuss Replication & Reach
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3. RELATIONSHIPS
“People don’t care how
much you know until they
know how much you care.”
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5. National Charter Schools Institute
• The Institute is a values-driven, nonprofit organization
founded in 1995.
• Our mission is to strengthen the performance and
productivity of the charter schools sector.
• We coach and consult with boards, schools, authorizers,
support organizations and policymakers.
• Our team is composed of passionate professionals.
• We seek to understand, honor and support our clients.
• We believe in and strive to uphold the Golden Rule.
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7. WHICH ORGANIZATIONS
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HAVE MASTERED
REPLICATION?

8. WHICH ORGANIZATIONS HAVE
UTILIZED REPLICATION TO
EXPAND THEIR INFLUENCE?
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9. Reforming
Education
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Student
Learning
Divergent Roads
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10. THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by, and that
has made all the difference.”
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- Robert Frost

11. WHAT REALLY MATTERS
Ensuring all students
are prepared for success in
college, work and life.
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12. What is worth replicating?

13. The Road to Greatness
Good, Not Great
Inflection
Point
Good, Not Great
Matched-Pair
Selection
Good-to-Great
Cases
GAP
Comparison
Cases

14. What Is Greatness?
Superior Performance
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Distinctive Impact
Lasting Endurance

15. “Good is the enemy
of great.”
Jim Collins

16. Collins’ Good-to-Great Framework
OUTPUT RESULTS
INPUT PRINCIPLES
STAGE 1: DISCIPLINED PEOPLE
Level 5 Leadership
First Who, Then What
STAGE 2: DISCIPLINED THOUGHT
Confront the Brutal Facts
The Hedgehog Concept
STAGE 3: DISCIPLINED ACTION
Culture of Discipline
The Flywheel
STAGE 4: BUILDING GREATNESS
TO LAST
Clock Building,
Not Time Telling
Preserve Core,
Stimulate Progress
DELIVERS SUPERIOR
PERFORMANCE
Relative to Its Mission
MAKES A DISTINCTIVE IMPACT
On the Communities
It Touches
ACHIEVES LASTING ENDURANCE
Beyond Any Leader,
Idea or Setback

17. Sharpening Your Focus

18. The
Flywheel

19. Building for
Breakthrough

20. “Greatness . . . is largely a
matter of conscious
choice and discipline.”
Jim Collins

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What are Systems?
• Processes for predictably achieving goals
• Based on specific, orderly, repeatable
principles and practices
• They leverage time, money and abilities
• They are deliberate, intentional and
practicable
How Successful People Grow by John C. Maxwell

22. What systems are currently in place in
your organization that would help
replicated the successful practice

23. The Most Consistently Admired
Characteristics of Leaders
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Honest
Forward-Looking
Competent
Inspiring

24. How Leaders Earn Credibility
• “They practice what they preach.”
• “They walk the talk.”
• “Their actions are consistent with their words.”
• “They put their money where their mouth is.”
• “They follow through on their promises.”
• “They do what they say they will do.”
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The Leadership Challenge

25. The Five
Temptations
of a CEO
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26. Five Practices of Exemplary Leaders
Model the Way
Inspire a Shared Vision
Challenge the Process
Enable Others to Act
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5 Encourage the Heart
Kouzes and Posner
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27. Which of the Principals of
Exemplary Leadership have you
already applied to the idea worth
replicating?
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28. “Doing everything keeps
us so busy we don’t have
time to think about what is
really important to us.”

29. Where Do You
Spend Time?
First Things First

30. Four Disciplines
of a Healthy
Organization

31. 1: Build a Cohesive Leadership Team
Cohesive teams develop trust,eliminate
politics and increase efficiency by…
• Knowing one another’s unique strengths
and weaknesses
• Openly engaging in constructive,
ideological conflict
• Holding one another accountable for
behaviors and actions
• Committing to group decisions.
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32. Healthy organizations minimize the
potential for confusion by clarifying…
• Why do we exist?
• How do we behave?
• What do we do?
• How will we succeed?
• What is most important — right now?
• Who must do what?
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2: Create Clarity

33. 3: Over-Communicate Clarity
Healthy organizations align their employees around
organizational clarity by communicating key messages through …
• Repetition: Don’t be afraid to repeat the same message again
and again.
• Simplicity: The more complicated the message, the more
potential for confusion and inconsistency.
• Multiple Mediums: People react to information in many ways;
use a variety of mediums.
• Cascading Messages: Leaders communicate key messages
to direct reports; the cycle repeats itself until the message is
heard by all.
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34. Organizations sustain their health
by ensuring consistency in…
• Hiring
• Managing performance
• Rewards and recognition
• Employee dismissal.
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4: Reinforce Clarity

35. “The single greatest advantage any
company can achieve is organizational
health. Yet it is ignored by most leaders
even though it is simple, free, and
available to anyone who wants it.”
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Patrick Lencioni
The Advantage

36. Resources for Pursuing Greatness
Good-to-Great Diagnostic Tool
www.jimcollins.com/tools.html
The Advantage
Comprehensive Check List
www.tablegroup.com
Institute for Excellence in Education
www.ExcellenceInEd.org
Illinois Mathematics and
Science Academy
www.imsa.edu
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IIT Boeing Scholars Academy
blogs.iit.edu/boeing_scholars/
Chicago Scholars
(88% to-and-through college in 6 yrs.)
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Project Lead The Way
www.pltw.org

37. “Set the standards higher
for yourself than others
would set them for you.”
John Maxwell

38. What is one thing you are going to
commit to doing as a result of our time
together?

39. THANK YOU!
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