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Shepherding Rapid Change: Visuals to Ponder

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Visuals often serve as powerful tools, especially when we're too busy to read dense books and articles on leadership. Here are three visu...

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Kindness

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March 7, 2020

I've written extensively about the importance of kindness. Here are some examples of why I believe we'll emerge stronger and...

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Kindness: Words of Wisdom

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A few years ago I had the privilege of Stanford Professor Bob Sutton share a piece I wrote on kindness (What is Success?) via social medi...

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Equity in Grading

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What does it mean when two students with the same academic performance and socioeconomic background receive different grades from two dif...

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Zanshin: In Between Zoom Meetings

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Zanshin is a Japanese concept I learned from my mentor at a young age, but I didn’t fully understand and appreciate until much later. Za...

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Productive Online Meetings

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March 11, 2020

With more institutions of higher education transitioning to online classrooms, they're also moving to online meetings to op...

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Marketing, Advertising & Branding Your College

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Marketing is how you see yourself.
Advertising is how you act in public.
Branding is how others see you.
Peter Gasca, Business Advisor & Lec...

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Leadership Reconsidered: 20th Anniversary

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It's the 20th anniversary of the publication,Ā Leadership Reconsidered: Engaging Higher Education in Social Change. (Link to PDF). This pr...

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Start & End Meetings On Time

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Colleges are busy places, and any number of things can come up that might prevent members’ timely arrival and departure. While unforeseen...

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Doers & Inputters: Minimizing Burn Out

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I've argued that typical institutions of higher education have only about three months to work on major priorities (see the article with ...

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