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12.17.2024

Servant Leadership

Servant Leadership is about building genuine, meaningful connections. It’s about our role as leaders to inspire, nurture, and empower.
12.10.2024

AI is here, and in higher education

To intelligently use AI, we must first understand how we got here. The name is more recent than the concept. Artificial intelligence is quite old.
Photograph by Dustin Hilt: Hiker en route to Mount Lincoln in January 2024
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 to the parking lot.
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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 daily routine.
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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 what they represent.
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 perhaps improve that relationship.
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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 perspective or not.
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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 a MOR program alum.  Marion may be reached at [email protected] or via LinkedIn. You know how it is sometimes: we’re so focused on what we want to communicate that we overlook the crucial visual and emotional threads that […]
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 [email protected] or via LinkedIn. I like to think about many things and want to be challenged to think in ways I had not considered before.  Wandering into unknown territory of thought feels like an adventure for me.  It’s […]
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 explored what it means to lead.