Leadership

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Brian McDonald, President of MOR Associates.  Brian may be reached at [email protected].]  Four Leadership Competencies Are:Management of MeaningManagement of AttentionManagement of TrustManagement of Self ​Warren Bennis ​Why Leaders Fail     In Warren Bennis’s book Why Leaders Fail he proposes that leaders have an opportunity to manage attention as well as manage meaning. […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Vijay Menta, CIO of Middlebury College.  Vijay may be reached at [email protected].]   We all hear about how hindsight is 20/20 and how when we reflect on things that have happened in the past, we start analyzing and continue to think about what we could’ve done or what we should’ve […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Brian McDonald, President of MOR Associates.  Brian may be reached at [email protected].]  Editorial Note: This is the last Tuesday Reading of 2020.  The next Tuesday Reading will be in January. These last nine months have been a particularly challenging stretch for most of us. The COVID-19 virus has loomed as a […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Keli Amann, User Experience Specialist, Office of the Vice Provost for Technology & Learning, Stanford University. She is a recent MOR program alum.  Keli may be reached at [email protected].]  Editorial note: The original version of this essay was written in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis.  As we begin […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is by Dr. David Sweetman, MOR Associates Leadership Coach and Consultant.  David may be reached at [email protected].]   This week we celebrate the 400th anniversary of the celebration of thanks for a good harvest and friendship between the Wampanoag Native Americans and Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony.  While we recognize this as the […]

[This reading is from Aaron Maternowski, Database Administrator, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.  He is a MOR program alum.  Aaron may be reached at [email protected].]   When I think back on my leadership journey, the main point that floats to the top is change. One of the first articles I read for my first MOR workshop […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Bill Hogue, MOR Associates Leadership Coach, Former CIO at University of South Carolina. Bill may be reached at [email protected].]   I’ve said more than once that I’d have been a better CIO if I had participated in a MOR leadership program along the way.  I’ve had plenty of experience in […]

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. […]

Leadership Is Contextual [Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Brian McDonald, President of MOR Associates.  Brian may be reached at [email protected].] Have you ever been to a country where you needed to drive on the left side of the road?  How many times did your brain overrule your intention and steer you back to the familiar pattern […]

Humble Leadership [Today’s Tuesday Reading is by Dr. David Sweetman, MOR Associates Leadership Coach and Consultant.  David may be reached at [email protected].]   As I think about our Tuesday Reading topics over the past month, a theme that comes to mind is humility.  Whether it is working through the fast-paced changes as we have had […]

2020 Commencement Thoughts …Helpful thoughts for the next steps in your life’s journey. [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 […]

Supporting Leaders at this Time [The text for today’s Tuesday Reading is from Sean McDonald, Vice-President of MOR Associates and the video is from Brian McDonald, President of MOR Associates. They may be reached at [email protected] and [email protected].] MOR Associates was founded with the belief that anyone within an organization can contribute, regardless of where they were within […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Brian McDonald, President of MOR Associates.  Brian may be reached at [email protected].] During the past three weeks we at MOR have had the opportunity to hear from more than 500 leaders across higher education on the lessons learned from these eventful last eight weeks. This was an extraordinary time when universities […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is by Rick Fredericks, MOR Associates Program Leader and Leadership Coach.  Rick may be reached at [email protected]] It is not news that MOR will push you to adopt beneficial practices.  I am honoring this quest personally by building a stay at home practice.  This makes sense considering my unholy trinity of risk factors: […]

[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. He may be reached at [email protected].] Tuesday Readings for the past four weeks have focused on how we can […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Bill Hogue, MOR Associates Leadership Coach, Former CIO at University of South Carolina. Bill may be reached at [email protected].] Anyone who has ever attended a MOR workshop can instantly conjure a mental image of MOR’s world famous table-top name tents.  Maybe you can picture yours even as you read this sentence. […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Sean McDonald, Vice-President of MOR Associates. Sean may be reached at [email protected].] Last week when we wrote about leadership during this time we also asked you to share your most pressing leadership challenges. We appreciate the many responses we got and will be using these inputs to influence near term Tuesday […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Brian McDonald, President of MOR Associates.  Brian may be reached at [email protected].] During this current health crisis it may be helpful to take a few minutes to step back and think about the leadership challenges and responsibilities that are inherent in this increasing critical threat. Before you begin this, it […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Sarah J. Buszka, Critical Infrastructure Service Lead, University of Wisconsin – Madison.  She is a current participant in the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) MOR Leaders Program.  Sarah may be reached at [email protected].]   In her book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, Angela Duckworth successfully proves that effort […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is by Dr. David Sweetman, MOR Associates Leadership Coach and Consultant.  David may be reached at [email protected].] In my experience coaching, teaching, and leading, one of the greatest limits to our potential are self-defeating assumptions.  In the words of the great automotive pioneer Henry Ford, Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re […]