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April, 2025

04.29.2025

Leadership Priorities Means Separating the Immediate From the Important

What do leaders need to do to balance the Important versus the Immediate? If everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority.
04.22.2025

This Is The Work of Leadership

Transitioning from technical work to leadership involves coaching managers and aligning on context, philosophy, and goals.
04.16.2025

The Four Attributes of Leadership Hiring

A few years ago, I published my Backpack Essentials for Your Leadership Journey.  Several of you provided me with such wonderful feedback that I was inspired to write another one for MOR’s Tuesday Reading series.  So thank you for sharing your feedback and keeping infrequent authors like me engaged on this journey of sharing their […]
04.15.2025

Stop Giving Advice and Start Asking the Right Coaching Questions

Michael Bungay Stanier’s book, The Coaching Habit, offers a simple yet powerful framework to transform how leaders coach by asking better questions.
04.08.2025

Challenge Assumptions to Create Smarter Higher Education IT Strategy

Our teams want to innovate and improve our institutions. Our leadership responsibility is focusing on measurable, beneficial outcomes.
04.01.2025

Prioritizing Self-Care in the Workplace Is Not Selfish

As the self-care trend emerged over the past few decades, I was too busy to pay much attention. My mindset has slowly evolved.