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  • What We Teach

    I work at a school.  What do we teach?  Yes, we teach writing, reading, and math.  Sometimes we teach art, singing, and creativity.  But because it is a formal education… Read more

  • You Can Grow Without Losing Your Soul

    That’s a line that I heard on a show that I watched last night (that’s where the Starbuckian post came from) – it was a show on Howard Schultz and… Read more

  • Starbuckian #starbucks

    How’s your Starbuckian?  If you’ve worked at Starbucks – you don’t count.  You get/got paid to speak and understand it.  But for the rest of us that haven’t worked at… Read more

  • LL29: My Area is the Most Important

    If someone works for you… and they are passionate about what they do…. and they absolutely love their job….. and they don’t get that there’s a whole organization to plan… Read more

  • Strategy and Tactics

    This is a simple idea.  Most people already know this, but this one idea really made a ton of sense to me today. It is not possible to talk about… Read more

  • Need Drama 2

    I wrote a post awhile ago about how we all need drama (click to check it out).  We all need drama, but the thing that makes it interesting is whether… Read more

  • Johnny Depp’s Identity Formation #JohnnyDepp

    I am fascinated by identity and what it does to people. I was reading an article on Johnny Depp and his relationship with Tim Burton. They’ve done a few movies… Read more

  • The Lone Nut

    I follow Derek Sivers on his blog.  He did a presentation at TED on leadership.  It’s pretty cool. A leader needs to the guts to stand alone and look ridiculous.… Read more

  • The Water Levels are Changing

    But I’m following it on bjpenn.com.  He’s not a news guy, but he’s there in Hilo.  Gonna watch the guy on the ground, not the people in the news room. … Read more

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I’m Lem Usita, Ed.D.

This site was my blog for many years that is now the site for the work that I do. Thanks for visiting.

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