Entrepreneurs Make Teaching Their Business

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You have a great idea for a new product or service. Now what? How do you cash in on your dream and bolster your bank account?

You teach.

  • You teach your business plan to investors.
  • You teach your sales force to better understand the competition and more directly counter customer objections.
  • You teach your customers the differentiated value proposition of your product or service.
  • You teach your employees to assimilate into the culture of the company, embrace the company’s vision and consistently contribute to the company’s mission.

That’s why entrepreneurs in particular and leaders in general make teaching their business.

For more ideas on how teaching = leading, grab your copy of TEACHING Like a Leader, Personally by Peter Jeff available on Amazon.com as the fourth book in the Leadership Mints Series.

The 300-page dip-in-anywhere book is comprised of 64 vignettes designed to help new, emerging and seasoned professionals in both formal teaching and general leading positions.

As a leader, you rightfully see yourself in the driver’s seat steering toward your destination but it is the teacher in you who will assure your passengers — your employees — are all on board.

No doubt as a leader you find yourself in the role of a teacher every day. Yet if you are like most leaders, you have had little or no formal study or coaching in the mindset and the discipline required to perform effectively as a professional teacher.

Purchase a copy of TEACHING Like a Leader and step into the classroom with exemplary teacher leaders (including 7 college professors and 19 primary and secondary educators and learn from celebrity teachers such as:

GE CEO Jack Welch
First Lady Dr. Jill Biden
Supreme Court Justice John Roberts
Don Shula pro football’s winningest
coach among others.

Learn how those teaching leaders gain trust, sustain interest, spark learning and gain understanding that drives continuous improvement. And add more to your understanding of effective teaching with the insights of more than 60 other authors referenced in TEACHING Like a Leader.

Bonus Section on Humor

Readers also enjoy a 29-page bonus section called The FUN-damentals of Leadership — on developing your sense of humor as a teaching and leading skill.
                                                                            

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To Get Your Copy of TEACHING Like a Leader

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Leadership Mint?

Consumed like a breath mint — quick and on-the-go, Leadership Mints are bite-sized ideas that refresh your feeling for leading and personalize your leadership principles so they are more easily remembered, more readily acted upon and more fully applied. And like its candy counterpart, Leadership Mints are easily accessed, quickly savored and immediately satisfying.

“Remember How Important Teachers Are”

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Quinta Brunson, playing a second grade teacher in the ABC-TV sitcom Abbott Elementary, ended her monolog as host on Saturday Night Live with a plea to value the teaching profession.

“Please, remember how important teachers are.

Acknowledge the
work they do every day

and for the love of God,
pay them the money
they deserve.”

Economists, business leaders and historians validate the value of teachers. For example:

  • Stanford University economist Eric Hanushek says that the difference between a good teacher and a bad teacher “can be a full level of student achievement in a single year.”
  •      Harvard University economist Raj Chetty conducted a study noting that an excellent kindergarten teacher increases the lifetime earnings of a class of 20 students by $320,000 or $16,000 per student.
  •      Technology guru and Microsoft founder
    Bill Gates says that teachers are more important than technology.
  •      Author John Steinbeck said that teaching might even be “the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”
  •      Veteran teacher and author of Teach Like a Pirate, Dave Burgess says: “Nothing is more powerful than a master teacher standing before a class of students orchestrating the learning experience.”
  •       Historian and author David McCullough observes: “There is no more important person in our society than our teachers. We are more indebted to our teachers than anybody inigniting our society.”

For more examples of teachers as leaders purchase your copy of TEACHING LIKE A LEADER , the 300-page newly published book available on Amazon.com that champions the teaching profession and features 26 exemplary teachers who demonstrate that teaching = leading.

What is a Leadership Mint?

Consumed like a breath mint –quick and on-the-go – Leadership Mints are bite-sized ideas that refresh your feeling for leading, energize your leadership behaviors and personalize your leadership principles so they are more easily remembered, more readily acted upon, and more fully applied. And like its candy counterpart, Leadership Mints are easily accessed, quickly savored and immediately satisfying.

Thank You Mrs. Ballew For Teaching Like a Leader

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Brendon Burchard is a 3-time New York Times bestselling author whose online personal growth videos and online personal development courses have garnered over 300 million views and landed him on the cover of Success Magazine twice. Not bad for a would-be high-school dropout.

The author of High-Performance Habits, The Motivational Manifesto and The Charge credits his high school English teacher Ms. Linda Ballew for encouraging him to stay in school and then championing his penchant for journalism that led him to virtually write his own ticket on the train to financial security.

 As the moderator of the school’s newspaper, Ms. Ballew led Mr. Burchard and his classmates in winning a national Best in Show for their high school newspaper over schools with 10 times the student journalists and 10 times the budget – and even more significantly — rekindled Mr. Burchard’s interest in staying in high school.

 Yes, indeed, teachers make a difference.

 For example, an analysis of 40 years of student test scores in Latin America found that academic performance determined 80 percent of the economic growth in those countries.

And on an even broader scale, teachers make a difference in fueling the lifeblood of our democracy, notes veteran teacher leader Doug Lemov, author of Teach Like a Champion 3.0. “Democracy is predicated upon education. That’s why teachers are the most important people in our society,” Mr. Lemov emphatically states.

So important, that teachers can even “affect eternity” as educational historian Henry Adams so astutely observed.

Just ask Brendon Burchard, now basking in the applause of millions of people as a leader in the game of life instead of struggling as a high school dropout on the sidelines of life.

Thank you Mrs. Ballew for teaching like a leader.

For more examples of teachers as leaders purchase your copy of TEACHING LIKE A LEADER , the 300-page newly published book available on Amazon.com that champions the teaching profession and features 26 exemplary teachers who demonstrate that teaching = leading.

Have a mint — a Leadership Mint –and savor the EnlightenMINT of teachers as leaders.

What is a Leadership Mint?

Consumed like a breath mint –quick and on-the-go – Leadership Mints are bite-sized ideas that refresh your feeling for leading, energize your leadership behaviors and personalize your leadership principles so they are more easily remembered, more readily acted upon, and more fully applied. And like its candy counterpart, Leadership Mints are easily accessed, quickly savored and immediately satisfying.

New Book Touts Teachers As Leaders

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Building on the insight of business management college professors such as Sydney Finkelstein (Dartmouth) and Noel Tichy (University of Michigan) that leading is teaching, TEACHING Like a Leader, Personally by Peter Jeff is now available on Amazon.com as the fourth book in the Leadership Mints Series.

The 300-page dip-in-anywhere book is comprised of 64 vignettes designed to help new, emerging and seasoned professionals in both formal teaching and general leading positions.

As a leader, you rightfully see yourself in the driver’s seat steering toward your destination but it is the teacher in you who will assure your passengers — your employees — are all on board.

No doubt as a leader you find yourself in the role of a teacher every day. Yet if you are like most leaders, you have had little or no formal study or coaching in the mindset and the discipline required to perform effectively as a professional teacher.

Purchase a copy of TEACHING Like a Leader and step into the classroom with exemplary teacher leaders (including 7 college professors and 19 primary and secondary educators and learn from celebrity teachers such as:

GE CEO Jack Welch
First Lady Dr. Jill Biden
Supreme Court Justice John Roberts
Don Shula pro football’s winningest
coach among others.

Learn how those teaching leaders gain trust, sustain interest, spark learning and gain understanding that drives continuous improvement. And add more to your understanding of effective teaching with the insights of more than 60 other authors referenced in TEACHING Like a Leader.

Bonus Section on Humor

Readers also enjoy a 29-page bonus section called The FUN-damentals of Leadership — on developing your sense of humor as a teaching and leading skill.
                                                                            

TEACHING = LEADING

Click Here
To Get Your Copy of TEACHING Like a Leader

What is a
Leadership Mint?

Consumed like a breath mint — quick and on-the-go, Leadership Mints are bite-sized ideas that refresh your feeling for leading and personalize your leadership principles so they are more easily remembered, more readily acted upon and more fully applied. And like its candy counterpart, Leadership Mints are easily accessed, quickly savored and immediately satisfying.

Putting Others Down With Class

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You’re tailgating the car in front of you. You’re so close that you can read the bumper sticker that says simply:

Do you follow Jesus this close?

Ah, the art of the put down without raising your voice is a critical leadership skill.

That’s why the most effective leaders learn how to call another person on the carpet without first pulling the rug out from under their own feet.

Those reprimanding leaders persuade with tact that demands considerable emotional intelligence. They empathize with others. And the more they step into the shoes of others the more opportunity they have to persuade others to acknowledge -if not agree—with their point of view.

For example, consider the teacher hosting a parent conference about their child disrupting the class with his rude behavior. The leader in the teacher is tactful in framing the conversation around her teaching not “Your Child’s” behavior. The teacher opens the meeting with this general observation:

I find it challenging to teach my class when a student persists in standing up and loudly acting like a fool.

Texas Teacher as quoted in the book THE Teachers by Alexandra Robbins

“Invariably the parent’s head snaps around and they say to their child: “Do you do that?,” Alexandra Robbins writes in 2023 book The Teachers.”If you lead with ‘Your Child’ the parent becomes defensive and won’t listen.”

Here are three other tactics you could use to make your point tactfully without embarrassing the other person.

  1. Get Curious Not Furious when someone is trying to stiff you like this hotel employee who was surprised to get a pittance of a tip after lugging three bags into the hotel room for the guest. “Oh, are you and your wife going to be tipping separately?,” the hotel employee inquired politely.
  2. Provide a face-saving option. When the cashier in a grocery store noticed a case of beer on the bottom of the cart that had not been scanned as the customer inserted his credit card at the conclusion of the transaction, the cashier simply said: “That beer must be on the second order is that right?
  3. Plead ignorance. “I must be confused. I thought I heard you say…..

For more tips and techniques on effective reprimanding — putting others down with class –without fueling the situation and getting burned –consider picking up a copy of SPEAKING Like a Leader, a Leadership Mints Series book on Amazon.com.

The third book in the Leadership Mints Series develops your ability to gain greater shared understanding and collaborative decision making through credible two-way communications especially in adversarial situations.

Readers develop their credibility, capability and memorability to gain greater understanding and speak with greater civility.

Get Your Copy of SPEAKING Like a Leader

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What is a
Leadership Mint?

Consumed like a breath mint — quick and on-the-go –Leadership Mints are bite-sized ideas that refresh your feeling for leading so that leadership principles are more easily remembered, more readily acted upon and more fully applied. And like its candy counterpart, LEADERSHIP MINTS are easily accessed, quickly savored and immediately satisfying.