| TEDTalks | How can disadvantaged students succeed in school? For sociologist Anindya Kundu, grit and stick-to-itiveness aren’t enough; students also need to develop their agency, or their capacity to overcome obstacles and navigate the system. He shares hopeful stories of students who have defied expectations in the face of personal, social and institutional challenges.
How To Network Effectively
| Forbes.com | Think about the last time you partook in a professional networking event–a happy hour mixer at work or an industry conference like Dreamforce, for example. Now, complete each of the following three word fragments. Fill in the blanks to form actual words. W _ _ H S H _ _ E R […]
Five Ways Leaders Can Stop Relying On ‘Hope’ As A Game Plan
| By John Pierce, www.forbes.com | Hope is not a strategy. At face value, that seems obvious; of course you wouldn’t incorporate “hope” into any official strategic plan. But realistically, everyone from the highest-level CEO to the hustling entrepreneur has occasionally thought, “I hope that what I’m doing works out the way I want it to.” It’s […]
Beer: Colleges’ New Way to Fill Seats, Not Couches
| By Marc Tracy, www.nytimes.com | BATON ROUGE, La. — When No. 5 Louisiana State (4-0) hosts Mississippi (3-1) on Saturday night, the Chute and the Skyline Club are bound to be crowded with fans who would like a beer or three. The Chute is on the ground floor of Tiger Stadium near the southern end zone. […]
In Division III Football, Enrollment of Male Students May be More Important Than What Happens on the Field
| By Jim Jump, www.insidehighered.com | Autumnal Saturdays are built around college football for a sizable segment of the population. Tens of thousands flock to campus stadiums each weekend to tailgate and cheer on the home team, and a couch potato could easily watch televised football from noon to midnight. There is a contingent whose fall is […]
How To Truly Think Outside The Box
| By Gerry Valentine, www.forbes.com | Think outside of the box. If you’re a leader, you’ve probably said those words many times. And, someone’s probably said the same thing to you. But, do you ever explain how to think outside of the box? As fond as we are of saying, “think outside of the box,” very few people know how […]
Beyond Language: The Power of Mindful Nonverbal Communication
| By Naz Beheshti, for Forbes.com | If you were an electrician or a carpenter, you would have a toolbox full of the tools you need to do your job. You might have a favorite tool but that would not stop you from making use of the full array of your other tools. When it comes […]
Measuring What Makes Life Worthwhile
| TEDTalk | When the dotcom bubble burst, hotelier Chip Conley went in search of a business model based on happiness. In an old friendship with an employee and in the wisdom of a Buddhist king, he learned that success comes from what you count.