| By Jeremy Bauer-wolf, www.insidehighered.com | When a video surfaced of the Virginia Tech women’s lacrosse players singing a hip-hop song on the team bus, something was immediately apparent. A predominantly white team sang a song that repeatedly uses a racial slur — the N-word — and was captured on camera. The internet reacted accordingly, with many […]
Servant Leadership Is Not What You Think
| By Kevin Kruse, www.forbes.com | What is “servant leadership” and how can it make you a better leader? Often in life and work, we become focused on tasks instead of people. If left unchecked, this “results first, team second” mentality can lead to low morale and even lower performances. However, by leading from the ground up […]
4 Commitments To Succeed Individually And As A Team
| By Benjamin P. Hardy, www.inc.com | When Mark Eaton was 21 years old, he had left the game of basketball behind him. He didn’t have the stuff. So instead, he became a mechanic, working on cars. Thing is, Eaton is 7-feet tall. How many 7-foot mechanics do you know, hunched over or under a car? While […]
17 Great Sheryl Sandberg Quotes on Success, Leadership, and Perseverance
| By Jeff Haden, www.inc.com | Sheryl Sandberg has received awesome career advice. And she’s also given it. “Taking initiative pays off. It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do.” “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” “Done […]
3 Common Pieces of Leadership Advice That Are Actually Total BS
| By Jessica Stillman, www.inc.com | Leadership is hard, and what makes for a great leader is harder still to pin down. Excellent leaders vary wildly in their style and approach, and each situation calls for different tactics. Which leaves leadership newbies in a bind. If there’s no set formula for leadership success, how do you learn to do your job […]
3 Ways to Get Over Your Fear of Public Speaking
| By Carol Sankar, www.inc.com | If you asked anyone who knew me in high school and university, they’d say I’d be the least likely person they knew to have a career in public speaking. I used to cringe at the thought of being asked to read in public. If a professor wanted a volunteer, I’d become nauseous while […]
The 3 Mental Qualities of Great Leaders
| By Michael Mckinney, www.leadershipnow.com | LEADERSHIP BEGINS in the mind. To lead effectively we must understand what is going on inside of us, so that we can lead ourselves. Only when we have developed a consistent habit of doing that can we then better understand and lead others and then collectively our teams and organizations. In The […]
Making A Great Leader
| By Psychology Today, www.psychologytoday.com | If you were asked to think about what makes a great leader, there are a number of traits you might call to mind, though what traits those happen to be might depend on what leader you call to mind: Hitler, Gandhi, Bush, Martin Luther King Jr, Mao, Clinton, or Lincoln were […]