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Today marks ten years since I began working for myself instead of on a campus. I can’t believe it has been that long.
When I reflect on the past decade, I’m struck by how much I have forgotten. I used to be an expert on college enrollment and knew all the nuances of so many regulations and processes. Not anymore. Of course, I still remember all the fundamentals, but...
Ahh, the allure of “new.”
I see it all the time: people get excited about starting something and become enamored of the next new thing. Maybe it’s proposing a new initiative, jumping on the latest bandwagon, or creating another committee to address an issue. Everyone is gung-ho at the start, but rather than digging in when things get mundane, initiatives are abandon...
My class has been reading material from Harvard Business Review that covers the difference between aspirations, mission, vision, strategy, and values. Much of it devolves into a semantics debate, but the essence is clear: you must envision a future state and develop a method to get you there. “Achieving an aspiration requires a strategy,” Casadesus-Mansanell writes. ...
“Leadership is plumbing and poetry.” — James March
In her book, Strong Ground, Brené Brown shares this quote that I believe captures the essence of the elusive leadership skill. “Plumbing” refers to the tasks of the role, the coordination and implementation functions that keep the trains running. “Poetry” highlights the intangibles that allow leaders to cre...
With any leadership or supervisory transition, there are bound to be changes introduced. To help those affected by the new ways of working, it is helpful if the leader sets the context for the adjustments.
Examples include:
“We’re altering this process so that…” “We need to revise how we do X because…” “