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Your Morning Boost - 🏈 Offense is the Best Defense: 3 Ways Leaders Must Shift from Reactive to Strategic Leadership

From Your Morning Boost: A School Leadership Podcast · Hosted by

2025-11-05·07:38

Episode summary

In this episode of Your Morning Boost: A School Leadership Podcast: Are you spending all your time reacting to crises, answering emails, and managing external mandates? When leaders only play defense, they surrender the agenda to external forces—the media, the district, or community frustration. In this vital episode of Your Morning Boost, we dive into a powerful piece from the Harvard Graduate School of Education (via the Fitting Five newsletter) that challenges us to flip the script.

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Are you spending all your time reacting to crises, answering emails, and managing external mandates? When leaders only play defense, they surrender the agenda to external forces—the media, the district, or community frustration. In this vital episode of Your Morning Boost, we dive into a powerful piece from the Harvard Graduate School of Education (via the Fitting Five newsletter) that challenges us to flip the script. Offensive leadership means you define the vision, set the pace, and