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Can we improve school interviews? Part 1: A brief review of the research

May 09, 2017 | Category: leadership
Recruitment for most employers is straightforward: you advertise, read through applications, invite the people you like in for an interview, think about it for a bit and then enter into negotiations w...

We don't know what we don't know: the uses of humility

Nov 05, 2015 | Category: leadership
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. George Arliss In my last post I challenged the widely-held belief that teachers' judgements are g...

Five techniques for overcoming overconfidence and improving decision-making

Nov 03, 2015 | Category: leadership
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision. Bertrand Russell Every s...

"Works for me!" The problem with teachers' judgement

Oct 11, 2015 | Category: leadership
It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own. Alexander Pope One of the difficulties inherent in challenging teachers' judgments is that when those...