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06.01.2021

Hybrid Meetings: 8 Steps to Success

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, […]
05.11.2021

Need Help? Just Ask.

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. […]
05.04.2021

Kamala Harris’ first 100 days

[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 […]
03.16.2021

I’m not very confident….so what?

[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 […]
03.09.2021

Overcoming Your Fear of Failure

[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. […]
02.16.2021

3 Personal Insights from the MOR Leadership Program

[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 […]
12.01.2020

Overused Strengths

[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. […]
09.29.2020

The Patient Leader

[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 […]
09.22.2020

Lessons from My Leadership Journey: John Gohsman

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. […]
09.08.2020

Life and Work Continues in the Age of COVID

Life and Work Continues in the Age of COVID [Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Jim Bruce, 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 reached at [email protected].] Since March, […]