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 […]
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 […]
How to Educate Leaders? Liberal Arts
A liberal arts education is critical to forming true leaders, says university head Patrick Awuah — because it builds decision-making skills, an ethical framework and a broad vision. Awuah himself left a career at Microsoft in the US to found a liberal arts school in Africa: Ashesi University, in his home nation of Ghana. A […]
How To Set Goals (And Why You Should Write Them Down)
By Annabel Acton | www.forbes.com | There’s some impressive science to back up goal setting. And yet it’s something we’re never taught or encouraged to do. But the statistics don’t lie, and make a strong argument for getting good at this skill; and making a habit of it. A Harvard Business Study found that the 3% of graduates from […]
High Functioning Teams Share This Trait In Common
By Natalie Nixon | www.inc.com | Bruce Mau, the XQ Super School project, and the Hearst Labs all have something in common: thought diversity. In nature, biodiversity is the infrastructure, platform and engine driving the symbiotic co-existence of species. There are over 40,000 plant species alone thriving in the Amazon rain forest: without that biodiversity, then flora, fauna and other organisms would […]