Leadership
The Best of TED: 5 Public Speaking Lessons from 30 Years of Spreading Ideas
Today’s reading, “The Best of TED” is a story that appeared in a March issue of FastCompany. It’s based on research by Carmine Gallo who analyzed 500 of the most popular TED talks to identify what makes a TED talk great. Gallo is a technology writer and author of Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets […]
Lessons in Leadership: How Lincoln Became America’s Greatest President
The Tuesday Reading this week is Lessons in Leadership: How Lincoln Became America’s Greatest President, an essay by Hitendra Wadhwa, Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Business at Columbia University. This essay appeared on Inc.com earlier this year. In his essay Professor Wadhwa examines how Lincoln developed the self-discipline to take one of his […]
Three Ways Leaders Can Listen with More Empathy
Three Ways Leaders Can Listen with More Empathy Today’s reading is Three Ways Leaders Can Listen with More Empathy, an essay by Christine M. Riordan, Provost at the University of Kentucky and an expert in leadership development and workplace diversity. The essay appeared on the HBR Blog Network. Riordan observes that “The ability and willingness to listen […]
11 Expert Tips to Help You Be More Productive in 2014
Today’s reading, “11 Expert Tips to Help You Be More Productive in 2014”, is one of those pieces written for a specific time, early January 2014, which on second thought, are applicable at any time of the year. This essay by Kathleen Davis, Leadership Editor at FastCompany.com, shares tips she has compiled from eleven super-productive […]
Four Keys to Thinking About the Future
The Tuesday Reading this week is “Four Keys to Thinking About the Future”, an essay by Jeffrey Gedmin that appeared on the Harvard Business School blogs. Gedmin is President and CEO of the Legatum Institute in London. Prior to joining the Legatum Institute in 2011, he spent four years as President and CEO of Radio […]
Increase Your Team’s Curiosity
Today’s Tuesday Reading is “Increase Your Team’s Curiosity” by Roger Schwarz, CEO of Roger Schwartz and Associates. The essay appeared in the Harvard Business School blogs. Schwarz suggests that at your next team meeting you track how many times you make a statement and the number of times you ask a question soliciting the views of […]
Strategy Without Execution Is Hallucination!
The Tuesday Reading today, “Strategy Without Execution Is Hallucination!” has a title that comes from a presentation to a McGill MBA class by Mike Roach, the CEO of CGI, a 31,000 person IT firm. The essay first appeared in Karl Moore’s Forbes column on Leadership. The author is Rebecca Black, a McGill graduate and now a […]
Three Leadership Lessons from Sochi: Practice, Practice, Practice
Today’s Tuesday Readng, “Three Leadership Lessons from Sochi: Practice, Practice, Practice,” appeared in the strategy+business blog. It comes from the pen of Eric J. McNulty, director of research at the National Preparedness Leadership Institute. No one excels without lots of practice. Most athletes at the 2014 Olympics have been practicing hours almost every day for […]
6 Management Lessons From Visionary Leaders
Today’s Tuesday Reading, “6 Management Lessons from Visionary Women Leaders,” is from the pen of Lydia Dishman, a business journalist covering innovation, entrepreneurship and style, and appeared recently in FastCompany. Dishman notes that it has been a big year for women in leadership. In her piece, she focuses on women who have recently become or […]
Doing Less, Leading More
Today’s Tuesday Reading is an essay, “Doing Less, Leading More” by Ed Batista. The essay recently appeared in the Harvard Business Review’s Blog Network. Batista is an executive coach and an Instructor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He writes regularly on issues related to coaching and professional development at <edbatista.com>. This essay was recently […]
An Unexpected Path: How I became Chancellor
Today’s Tuesday Reading, “An Unexpected Path: How I became Chancellor”, is an essay by Phyllis Wise, Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The essay was posted at LinkedIn.com. Chancellor Wise thinks of herself more as a leader by accident than by design. After completing her doctorate at the University of Michigan, her goal […]
Feedback is a Gift
“If feedback is a gift, every day was Christmas.” – MOR Program participant As we approach this time of giving and receiving gifts, we are reminded of the age-old MOR mantra, “Feedback is a Gift”. When colleagues, friends and family offer us bits of constructive words of development, take them and thank them! When Aunt Sally gives you yet another holiday sweater, […]
A Leadership Reflection: Nelson Mandela
As we reflect on the impact of Nelson Mandela’s life and his ability to change the world: for the better: “It always seems impossible until it is done.” Nelson Mandela. Additionally, from BusinessWeek, “The Leadership Lessons of Nelson Mandela” http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/172548-the-leadership-lessons-of-nelson-mandela Leadership is behavioral, not positional Choose collaboration over retaliation Never give up on […]
Real Influence – Part 2
This week’s Tuesday Reading “Real Influence,” from the title of Mark Goulston and John Ullmen’s book “Real Influence: Persuade Without Pushing and Gain Without Giving In,” is a continuation of the reading begun last week. Goulston is a business psychiatrist, executive coach and cofounder of Heartfelt Leadership. Ullmen oversees the website MotivationRules.com and teaches at […]
Real Influence – Part 1
I’ve titled this week’s Tuesday Reading “Real Influence” from the title of Mark Goulston and John Ullmen’s book “Real Influence: Persuade Without Pushing and Gain Without Giving In.” Goulston is a business psychiatrist, executive coach and cofounder of Heartfelt Leadership. Ullmen oversees the website MotivationRules.com and teaches at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. This reading is […]
Where's Your Focus?
This week’s Tuesday Reading, “Where’s Your Focus?” is a post on Jim Hall’s COACHING BUTTONS Blog. Jim is an 2007 ITLP alum from the University of Minnesota where he is now Director of Information Services at the University of Minnesota, Morris. Jim’s essay focuses on Leading – Managing – Doing (LMD) and, in particular, on […]
What Behaviors Must Leaders Avoid?
Today’s Tuesday Reading is “What Behaviors Must Leaders Avoid?”. This essay is by Amy Jen Su and Muriel Maignan Wilkins. It appeared earlier this year in the HBR blogs. Amy Jen Su and Muriel Maignan Wilkins are co-founders and managing partners of Isis Associates, a boutique executive coaching and leadership development firm. They are the authors […]
World Series MVP David Ortiz's Big, Bold, On-the-fly Leadership Lessons
Leadership lessons continue to flow from the recent worst-to-first Red Sox season. Here is a great article from Fast Company on David Ortiz and leadership, “World Series MVP David Ortiz’s Big, Bold, On-the-fly Leadership Lessons“. It’s lessons: 1. Borrow from other industries. I.e., the huddle. Video of Papi rallies his teammates in dugout […]
3 Things We Can Learn From The 2013 Red Sox
If there are two things we are passionate about here at MOR its Leadership and the Red Sox. Congratulations to the Red Sox, the Boston area and to all of Red Sox Nation on our World Series victory! Thomas Kochan, the George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management and co-director of the Institute for Work & Employment Research at MIT’s Sloan School […]