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Tuesday Reading
12.03.2024
Is Your Goal the Summit or the Parking Lot?
I summited 48 mountains. A key insight: the goal when hiking is not to reach the summit; the goal is to return safely…
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11.26.2024
Practicing Gratitude Is an Attitude
One of the simplest practices recommended in the MOR Leaders Program is the adoption of giving three gratitudes as a …
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11.19.2024
Capturing Metrics With Meaning
Metrics are just numbers and may not mean anything. The value emerges when they are contextualized to help understand…
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11.12.2024
True Colors and How They Show Up
If you can identify your communication style, you can more easily alter your communication to be more effective and p…
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11.05.2024
Leading During Times of Uncertainty and Heightened Tension
As you engage, it will be useful to empathize with the emotions people are experiencing whether we agree with their p…
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10.29.2024
Sticky Visual and Emotional Communication
Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Marion Groh Marquardt, Associate Director of Web Services at Stanford University and …
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10.22.2024
Effective Leadership Requires Thinking and Applying
Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Peggy Huston, Leadership Coach at MOR Associates. Peggy may be reached at peggy…
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10.08.2024
Delegation and Workload Management
Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Kirsten Mortimer, Strategic IT Services Manager at the University of Wisconsin-Whitew…
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10.01.2024
Unleashing the Power of SWOT Analysis: A Strategic Tool for Success
Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Glenn Brule, MOR Associates Leadership Coach. Glenn may be reached at glenn@morassoci…
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09.24.2024
Answering Questions
Weeks ago, we discussed asking questions. Today, I want to focus on answering the questions that you are asked.
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Emotional Intelligence
11.12.2024
True Colors and How They Show Up
If you can identify your communication style, you can more easily alter your communication to be more effective and p…
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03.12.2024
Appreciation in the Face of Anticipation
Anticipation keeps us moving forward. It enables us to apply what we’ve learned. But there’s a trap: Over-anticipatio…
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04.25.2023
I Grieve and I Appreciate
My father recently passed away after struggling with Parkinson’s & COPD. As I was on this journey, I realized the imp…
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01.24.2023
Six Steps Toward Resilient Leadership
Feeling burned out as the leader? Resilience is the capacity to meet adversity, setbacks and trauma, and recover to l…
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10.04.2022
A way to improve workplace stress
Gratitude makes us feel good on both the sending and receiving side. However, it goes further: expressing gratitude a…
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07.12.2022
Developing Resilience
Resilience provides confidence to step up and lead. Resilient leaders are able to overcome setbacks and help others o…
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06.21.2022
Back to Basics
[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Susan Washburn, Program Leader and Leadership Coach at MOR Associates. Susan may be…
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04.19.2022
What Would Donna Do?
What Would Donna Do? [Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Beth Holtz, Senior Manager for Strategic Initiatives and Admin…
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03.29.2022
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff
[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Brandon Bernier, Vice President IT and CIO, Colorado State University. He is a MOR p…
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03.22.2022
Lead with emotion but don’t let emotion lead you
[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Lori Green, Program Leader and Leadership Coach at MOR Associates. Lori may be reac…
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Leadership Reflections
10.29.2024
Sticky Visual and Emotional Communication
Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Marion Groh Marquardt, Associate Director of Web Services at Stanford University and …
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10.15.2024
A Reflection on Leading
I’ve had the opportunity to cross paths with thousands of leaders and learn from their journeys. Together, we’ve expl…
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09.10.2024
From Missed Boats to Big Wins: How I Learned to Show Up
I can’t pinpoint when things started to change. It wasn’t some big, life-altering event but a series of small choices…
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08.13.2024
Athletics and Leadership
When you are good at a team sport, you might become team captain. After much trial and error, I learned things I want…
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07.16.2024
The Guitar and Learning New Things
Learning new things, whether fun or professional, comes with stress. Here are some lessons that have helped me naviga…
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07.09.2024
The Power of Summer Vacations
Resilience is an essential quality for leadership. What better way to nurture personal well-being than through a summ…
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07.02.2024
Leading From Who You Are
As I ponder the essence of leadership, one word resonates deeply: values. The internal compass, the True North, that …
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05.28.2024
Five Lessons from the Flying V
I am fascinated with geese in their “Flying V” formation and how they manage to create such a flawless shape.
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02.06.2024
Developing a Leadership Community
What transforms a group unfamiliar with each other into an inclusive, close-knit cohort that genuinely wants to help …
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01.23.2024
Leadership – The Awakening Seed of Transformation
Let me tell you a story. As a young person and well into my teens, I was severely introverted. I was afraid of my own…
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
11.01.2022
The Power of Community
A safe and caring community is one that has a connection through trust, vulnerability, and a genuine desire to care f…
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03.01.2022
Losing Talent – What Can We Do?
Creating a highly engaged workforce is one way to counter the potential loss of people. Here are five strategies to …
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02.08.2022
The Next Leaders
Where will the next leaders come from? Think about the talent around us and how we might think differently in answeri…
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09.28.2021
The Poetry of Practice
Thinking of a poet’s dedication to their practice reminds me of what it takes to form a habit and change neurological…
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06.22.2021
Commencement Speeches 2021
[Jim Bruce, today’s author, is a Senior Fellow and Executive Coach at MOR Associates. He previously was Professor of …
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05.25.2021
Implications of the Hybrid Scenario
[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Brian McDonald, President of MOR Associates. Brian may be reached at brian@morassoc…
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05.18.2021
What’s Next? Hybrid? Remote? Everyone Back?
[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Brian McDonald, President of MOR Associates. Brian may be reached at brian@morassoc…
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04.27.2021
Demographics Are Destiny (Maybe?)
Demographics Are Destiny (Maybe?) [Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Jack Wolfe and David Sweetman of MOR Associates. T…
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