Goals & Practices

What Do You Practice?   [Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Brian McDonald, President of MOR Associates.  Brian may be reached at [email protected].]   What do you practice? For what you practice you will get good at.   After devoting his academic life to learning why some individuals are better at certain tasks than others, K. Anders […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Steve Martino, Customer Success Manager at Cohesity.  He is a MOR alum.  Steve may be reached at [email protected].]     There were messages early in my life that held me back from reaching my potential personally and in my career.   From my mom: “Why are you stressing yourself out […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Mike Sullivan with contributions from Lori Green.  They are Program Leaders and Leadership Coaches with MOR Associates. They may be reached at [email protected] and [email protected].]   We’ve got two questions we want you to reflect on for a minute: How are you doing at taking care of business? How are you doing at taking care […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Brian McDonald, President of MOR Associates.  Brian may be reached at [email protected].] Back in December the theme for this article was going to be envisioning your future. The idea was to offer a simple yet powerful exercise proposing you sketch out your desired future state for the year ahead. The […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Eva Dale, Web Services Director for the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University.  She is a BTAA MOR alum.  Eva may be reached at [email protected].]   We human beings are funny creatures. In prehistoric days, if there was a scary shadow in the distance then it […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Peggy Huston, Leadership Coach at MOR Associates.  Peggy may be reached at [email protected].]   Are you busy?  I’m busy.  It seems like many of us are busy.  It seems that we are so busy at times that we don’t have time to plan where we are going, but we sure are […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is by Rick Fredericks, MOR Associates Program Leader and Leadership Coach.  Rick may be reached at [email protected]] My first adult job was stacking lumber at a saw mill on the far western slope of the Rocky Mountains. This in the days when logs were held in a pond before debarking. Sawdust was […]

Thinking of a poet’s dedication to their practice reminds me of what it takes to form a habit and change neurological pathways.

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Jacqueline McKethan, Information Security Specialist at Southern Methodist University.  She is a MOR alum.  Jacqueline may be reached at [email protected].] The start of the fall semester is one of the busiest times of the year for many of us.  As we embark on a unique fall semester, the idea of […]

[Jim Bruce, today’s author, is a Senior Fellow and Executive Coach at MOR Associates. He previously was Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Vice President for Information Systems and CIO at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Jim can be reached at [email protected].]   Elan Goldwaser, sports medicine specialist at New York Presbyterian Hospital, puts […]

[Jim Bruce, today’s author, is a Senior Fellow and Executive Coach at MOR Associates. He previously was Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Vice President for Information Systems and CIO at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Jim can be reached at [email protected].]   In every year, except for this and last year, I can […]

Hybrid Meetings: 8 Steps to Success [Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Rachel Napoli, Chief of Staff in the Office of the CIO at the University of Iowa.  She is a MOR alum.  Rachel may be reached at [email protected].]   Our future workforce will be a mix of co-located and remote workers. If meetings are hybrid, […]

Need help? Just ask. [Today’s author, Jim Bruce, is a Senior Fellow and Executive Coach at MOR Associates. He previously was Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Vice President for Information Systems and CIO at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Jim may be contacted at [email protected].]   Everyone needs help from time to time. […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is by Kathy Pletcher, MOR Associates Leadership Coach.  Kathy may be reached at [email protected]]   The inauguration of Kamala Harris to the office of Vice President was a breakthrough for women, especially women of color and daughters of immigrants.  She is the first woman, first black woman and first southeast Asian women […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is by Mike Sullivan, MOR Associates Program Leader and Leadership Coach.  Mike may be reached at [email protected]]   I’m not very confident. Never have been. Always thought I wasn’t. Still think I’m not. I get anxious and uncomfortable in new or challenging situations. Always have been. Still am.   I’m not alone […]

[Jim Bruce is a Senior Fellow and Executive Coach at MOR Associates.  He previously was Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Vice President for Information Systems and CIO at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.]   In our past, at one time or another, each of us have tried and failed at something, sometimes spectacularly. […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Garrett King, Director of Identity & Access Management at Carnegie Mellon University.  He is a MOR alum.  Garrett may be reached at [email protected].]   Looking back over my MOR experience, I wanted to share a few moments of insight (lightbulb moments) that I had over the course of the MOR […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is by Rick Fredericks, MOR Associates Program Leader and Leadership Coach.  Rick may be reached at [email protected]] On a hot May afternoon, I was at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. The temperature was 115°. My swollen, blistered feet were cooling in the Colorado River. Blisters were the least of my worries. […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Jim Bruce, Senior Fellow and Executive Coach at MOR Associates. He previously served as Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Vice President for Information Systems and CIO at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Jim may be reached at [email protected].] Professor Manifred de Vires1, INSEAD Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership […]

Today we introduce a new Tuesday Reading series “Lessons from My Leadership Journey.”  This occasional series will highlight exemplary senior leaders.  MOR Associates invited John Gohsman to be the inaugural leader featured in this series.  John Gohsman recently announced he would be stepping down as CIO at Notre Dame due to some on-going health challenges. […]