ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that Difference Makers minimize the "exhale" after the big meeting and then consider each next day's best work between board meetings as helping considerably the next meeting's agenda. Yet true Difference Makers keep the exhale right-sized and short in duration, as there is a lot to expect from the boards of education between board meetings, as well as during them. For it is between board meetings that the most powerful opportunities at local school district governance can take place, where the most "real" business oftentimes gets done. Difference Makers know that what happens between board meetings is even more critical than what happens at each meeting of the board. Difference Makers know that between-meeting activity is critical to having a functional board and administration, to keeping all focused on the 10,000-foot view, and to trusting the motives of one another.
