Read the Terrain
Laura Spencer, Ed.D., Creative StudioField notes from inside the work. For leaders building things that need to last.
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I Was Already Mid-Flight Onto the Dryer
The dryer cord was behind the dryer. Of course it was.
My youngest daughter, Jordan, was moving into her first home, and I flew across the country to help. I didn’t realize installing her washer and dryer would be part of the trip. But her...
Hold Up. Say That Again.
This week I shared on social media that my book comes out November 2. The support poured in, and I wanted to cry.
Then today, a woman I have never met messaged me. She said she’d like to be an advance reader. She’d like to read it.
That w...
My Leadership Book Has a Launch Date
This past weekend I was in Big Bear with 80 Land Rovers.
(That sentence makes me happier than it probably should.)
Our club puts on Rover Rendezvous once a year. We reserved an entire campground, and the weekend ran on camaraderie and cam...
Why Digital Natives Are Not Digitally Literate
A close friend was celebrating twenty-five years with her husband, and we were reminiscing over text about how much the world had shifted since they met.
Twenty-five years ago was around 2001. We had indestructible Nokia brick cell phones...
The Day I Struck the Word Mandate From My Vocabulary
Years ago I was a brand new technology coordinator for a school district, back when the internet was still young enough to feel like a frontier, and I had an idea I loved. Every teacher would have a personal webpage. I built the training. I...
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I lead organizations and build systems for a living. I write about what actually works when people, leadership, and reality collide. And in my spare time, I off-road. :-)
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