By Aaron Levy | www.forbes.com | In my work with over 5,000 leaders, I’ve found there are four traits all powerful leaders have in common. These leaders are master motivators, expert talent evaluators and powerful communicators, and they are courageous enough to serve their people by sharing the critical feedback each person needs to grow. Underneath each […]
Forget the Pecking Order at Work
TEDTalks Organizations are often run according to “the superchicken model,” where the value is placed on star employees who outperform others. And yet, this isn’t what drives the most high-achieving teams. Business leader Margaret Heffernan observes that it is social cohesion — built every coffee break, every time one team member asks another for help […]
6 Habits That Will Make Your Mondays So Much Easier
By Jessica Shambora | www.inc.com | How can I make Monday mornings at work more bearable? originally appeared on Quora – the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by , 15 Years of Career Experience, on Quora: Mondays are hard. No matter how much you love your job, making the […]
PoA108 | Rewind: Lynn Oberbillig, Smith College
Lynn Oberbillig served as the director of athletics and recreation at Smith since 1993, and transitioned to the college’s Exercise and Sport Studies (ESS) department as a full-time lecturer in July 2015. This episode originally published in March of 2014. Timeline Highlights 03:05 – Moving to Division III 04:16 – Division III a Better Fit […]
Adding Sports Helping Small Colleges Grow
By Stu Durando St. | www.stltoday.com | The addition of wrestling to the menu of sports at Maryville University in 2011 occurred without fanfare but turned out to be a significant moment on the West County campus. A Hall of Fame coach was hired. The team became the first at the university to earn a No. 1 […]
6 Reasons Why Failure Is As Equally Important As Success
By Ruturajkohok | www.pickthebrain.com | All of us dream of success and of reaching great heights. But have any of us dreamt of failure? Or how failure shapes us in a way to achieve success? A majority of us would answer with a “NO”. No one in their right minds would want to fail. It is something […]
Lost Trust in College Sports
By Jeremy Bauer-wolf | www.insidehighered.com | National Collegiate Athletic Association President Mark Emmert called for major reforms in collegiate athletics Monday, in perhaps his most substantive statements since the news of multiple recent sports scandals, which he said have eroded public trust. Addressing the independent Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, a panel that for nearly 30 years […]
How Leaders Really Improve
By Jeff Boss | www.forbes.com | It’s been said that when it comes to improvement you should dedicate more focus on developing your strengths than your weaknesses. The argument is that by improving what you’re already good at you become even better, thus compounding improvement. But I couldn’t disagree more. You can’t not improve when you try something you’re […]