You may not hear these phrases every day in your school system’s central office or schools, but if you did and your staff thought like this…. What difference would they be making in the lives of your students, parents and communities?  I am not sure who first authored the below phrases, but these phrases are entrenched in organizations globally that are focused on excellence and making a difference in our world.  May they bring you inspiration, thought and possibly positive results:

1.  Every day a little up.

2.  First Hearts, then heads, and finally hands.

3.  We see together.  We learn Together.  We do Together.

4.  There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

5.  When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of hacking at the leaves.

6.  A bad system will beat a good person every time.

7.  If you see a snake, just kill it – don’t appoint a committee on snakes.

8.  We are too busy mopping to turn the faucet off or the essential question is not, “how busy are you?” but “what are you busy at?”

9.  The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency the second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

10.  The impossible is often the untried.

And here’s a bonus phrase…..

It is an immutable law in that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality.