| By Rhett Power, www.inc.com | You possess the greatest gift known to mankind: the power of choice. Is there something in your life that could be better? You have everything you need, right now, to change it. You can’t always control external people and events, but there’s a secret: Everything changes when you change yourself. Smart people know that we […]
A Checklist for Transformative Leaders
By Elaine P. Maimon for The Chronicle of Higher Education Higher-education transformation, which is essential if colleges and universities are to survive in the 21st century, relies on transformative presidential leadership. Twenty-seven years ago, Judy B. Rosener, now a professor emerita in the business school at the University of California at Irvine, wrote an article in the Harvard […]
Why Great Leaders Do These 5 Things in Every Meeting
| By Kristi Hedges, www.inc.com | Most people accept that meetings are a part of work–but that doesn’t mean they enjoy them. As this infographic shows, managers spend between 35-50% of their time in meetings, and up to four hours a week just on status updates. And those same bosses consider 67% of meetings to be failures. Try as you might to escape […]
3 Management Fundamentals That Will Serve You Well In 2018
| By Victor Lipman, www.forbes.com | We often tend to make things harder than they are. While you’ll never catch me saying management is an easy job (if it were, we’d never have around 70% of employees chronically disengaged), some of the basics underlying success involve far more common sense than complexity. In this spirit, let’s look at three […]
As Esports Industry Booms, Some Colleges Launch Varsity Teams
| By Lindsey Wright, www.wfyi.org | The competitive video game industry, known as esports, is booming. As it continues to surpass growth projections, some college athletics programs are jumping on board while others hold out. The Indiana Institute of Technology added its varsity esports program at the beginning of this school year. Head Coach Geoffrey Wright says […]
Three Myths of Collaboration
It’s not a fad or a ‘soft’ topic. For more, read “Smart Collaboration.”
8 Secrets to Success
Why do people succeed? Is it because they’re smart? Or are they just lucky? Neither. Analyst Richard St. John condenses years of interviews into an unmissable 3-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success.
8 Principles for Building a High-Performance Culture
| By Michael Mckinney, www.leadershipnow.com | WHEN IT COMES to recruiting, motivating, and creating great teams, Patty McCord says most companies have it all wrong. Powerful is a book of advice gained from her experience at Netflix. When McCord began her career in Human Resources at Netflix, she began working with Reed Hastings to identify the behaviors that they […]