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05.06.2025

From Railways to Three Lenses: Embracing Change in Leadership

I faced significant pushback from others when making changes. This confounded me until we studied Van Maanen’s three lenses on organizational change.
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.
03.18.2025

Is Your Emotional Intelligence a Leadership Superpower or Kryptonite?

Emotional Intelligence wasn’t always a concept I grasped fully. I hadn’t realized my emotions communicated even when my words didn’t.
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.
09.03.2024

Do Less, With MOR

Work on the right things, use my time to think strategically, and do less of what’s comfortable and more of what’s needed. Focus on impact.
08.27.2024

Strategic Leadership with Curiosity and Excitement

With my operations manager retiring, I focused on strategic change and reimagining the operations team for emerging technology trends.
08.06.2024

The Olympics: What Does It Take to Be the Best in the World?

What is required to be on a stage competing against the best in the world? What’s the correlation with how you work toward becoming great?
06.04.2024

Know Your Strengths and Maximize Your Impact

Focusing on existing strengths allows individuals to build on what they already do well, boosting confidence and motivation.
05.14.2024

A Common Toolset for Enhancing Leadership Collaboration

MOR common constructs are instrumental in building leadership capabilities to enhance working through issues and addressing initiatives together.
05.07.2024

Common Language Promotes Collaboration

When they encounter each other, they can quickly communicate and connect based on a shared MOR experience and the resulting language.
04.23.2024

You Can Say NO

While you don’t want to be known as a “no” person, you do want to be seen as a team player. That makes the situation difficult.
04.16.2024

The MOR Hardware Store for Life

Do you crave a transformative experience? Do you want to take a quantum leap? Step right this way; MOR Hardware has you covered.
10.17.2023

How Much Untapped Potential Is Out There?

Where do you see untapped growth potential in people? What strategies could you advance to invite others to explore their potential?
09.05.2023

Breaking the Busyness Cycle

I tend to say “yes” to everything. There are many reasons. For a long time, this served me well enough, but it all became too much.
08.29.2023

Grit Lasts Longer Than Giftedness

I offer this as an option to reframe a challenging situation into an opportunity to level up: grit lasts longer than giftedness.
05.30.2023

You 2.0 Could Be on the Horizon

Think about your Desired Future State. Don’t settle, have it really be a transformation. This is your 2.0 “version” you should set sight on.
05.02.2023

Can AI Help Me Grow as a Leader?

AI can be complementary in our leadership toolkit. However, as with any tool, it works great for some circumstances and not as well for others.
02.22.2023

The Time For Purposeful Leadership Is Now

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Laura Patterson, Leadership Coach and Consultant at MOR Associates.  She previously was CIO at the University of Michigan. Laura can be found on LinkedIn and can be reached at [email protected]. More than 19 million workers left the workplace between April 2021 and February 2022, a record pace that disrupted business […]
Six Steps Toward Positive Mental Health
01.17.2023

Six Steps Toward Positive Mental Health

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Laura Patterson, Leadership Coach and Consultant at MOR Associates.  She previously was CIO at the University of Michigan. Laura may be reached at [email protected] or via LinkedIn.]   The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated long standing challenges to employee health and well-being and has contributed to a high rate of employee […]
MOR Creates Ripple Effects in One’s Life…
12.20.2022

MOR Creates Ripple Effects in One’s Life…

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Marcia Dority Baker, Leadership Coach at MOR Associates.  Marcia may be reached at [email protected] or via LinkedIn. Editorial Note: This is the last Tuesday Reading of 2022.  The next Tuesday Reading will be in January. ]     “You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples […]