| By Marc Stein, www.nytimes.com | CLEVELAND — The Golden State Warriors are exploring potential pathways to improvement for next season, but they reject the notion this makes them greedy — even with a 3-0 series lead in the N.B.A. finals. The team’s resident shot doctor, Bruce Fraser, prefers to describe it as intellectual curiosity. Working daily […]
The NCAA Is Too Far Gone for Incremental Reform
| By Arne Duncan, Carol Cartwright, www.chronicle.com | At its spring meeting last month, the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics made a radical recommendation. We urged the NCAA to shift from being a membership association — with inherent conflicts of interest — to being an independent leadership organization capable of propelling real change in the college revenue sports of Division […]
The College Dropout Problem
| By Frederick Hess, www.forbes.com | America has a college dropout problem. For all the talk of college costs and whether students can even afford to go to college, we’ve tended to skip past an equally crucial question—whether students who make it to campus are graduating with a useful credential. The sad reality is that far too […]
Motivating Employees Through Challenging (And Rewarding) Times
| By Vivian Maza, www.forbes.com | There are many factors at play when it comes to retention and employee happiness, but one question really gets at the core of both: Are your people motivated? Motivation is what gets employees in the door every morning, keeps them committed to doing great work and inspires them to continuously go […]
NCAA DII Leaders: Census Affirms Strategic Plan
| www.ncaa.org | As Division II prepares for a midterm assessment of its six-year strategic plan, the results of a new membership census will serve as a compass guiding the division’s future objectives and initiatives. And in large part, the division’s leaders received affirmation that they’re headed in the right direction, with respondents to the […]
How to Build (and Re-build) Trust
Trust is the foundation for everything we do. But what do we do when it’s broken? In an eye-opening talk, Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei gives a crash course in trust: how to build it, maintain it and rebuild it — something she worked on during a recent stint at Uber. “If we can […]
Networking Is Important For Your Career. Do You Know How To Do It?
| By Bonnie Marcus, www.forbes.com | We’ve all heard the advice that networking is important for our careers. And regardless of your profession, your industry or demographic, the message is loud and clear. If you want to be successful, you need to spend time networking. It’s great advice. But the critical missing piece to this advice is […]
6 Strategies for Projecting Personal Authenticity in Leadership
| By Martin Zwilling, www.inc.com | Every business owner and startup founder knows they are expected to lead the charge in starting and growing their business. In my experience as a business advisor and mentor, I find that most believe they are doing a convincing job, but in many cases, their key team members are not so sure. In reality, leadership is a […]