Strategy
Leading Through Uncertainty: Lessons for Today’s Leaders
Recently, I had the opportunity to join Craig Anderson on his popular Executive Evolution podcast. So I wanted to share my perspectives from what was a great and fun discussion. We covered a lot of ground—leadership challenges, decision-making in uncertain times, and the lessons I’ve learned along the way in higher education and beyond. As […]
Successfully Integrating Services at the University
Successfully integrating administrative organizations across a university is as much about people and culture as technology and budgets. The real key to success lies in a clear purpose, an inclusive process, principled decision-making, and robust communication. MOR’s expertise helps institutions navigate both the technical and human challenges, ensuring that changes are not only implemented but embraced.
What if Culture and Strategy Share a Breakfast?
Culture and strategy must collaborate for success; when aligned and sharing breakfast, they fuel resilience and adaptability in organizations.
Navigating Workforce Instability: Employing Talent Agility in Higher Education
Higher education must foster talent agility to adapt, ensuring resilience and innovation amid workforce instability.
Integrating IT Across the University: MOR’s Recommended Approach
IT integration requires intentional wording, an inclusive process, a clear purpose, established principles, an effective process, and ongoing communication.
Consolidate, Centralize, Reorganize, Restructure Are on the Front Burner Again
Consolidation strategies at universities meet resistance. Success hinges on clear goals, local expertise, and avoiding the wrong language.
Sweeping Success: Clarifying Value and ROI
Declutter your organization by focusing on high-impact activities clarifying value and boosting ROI as you consider what to stop and what to start.
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.
Leadership Priorities Means Separating the Immediate From the Important
What do leaders need to do to balance the Important versus the Immediate? If everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority.
Is Your Goal the Summit or the Parking Lot?
I summited 48 mountains. A key insight: the goal when hiking is not to reach the summit; the goal is to return safely to the parking lot.
Effective Leadership Requires Thinking and Applying
Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Peggy Huston, Leadership Coach at MOR Associates. Peggy may be reached at [email protected] or via LinkedIn. I like to think about many things and want to be challenged to think in ways I had not considered before. Wandering into unknown territory of thought feels like an adventure for me. It’s […]
Unleashing the Power of SWOT Analysis: A Strategic Tool for Success
Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Glenn Brule, MOR Associates Leadership Coach. Glenn may be reached at [email protected] or via LinkedIn. Staying ahead of the curve requires more than intuition and luck in the ever-evolving work landscape. It demands a strategic approach that allows you to maximize your strengths, manage your weaknesses, multiply opportunities, and mitigate […]
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.
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.
Enrollments – Cliff After Cliff After ???
I hope you love numbers as much as I do. Let me offer some, to understand Higher Education’s future enrollment and revenue streams and their impact.
Unprincipled
Most of my career, I had no principles.
In 2018, I got some, and it changed everything.
Let me explain.
Your Employees Are Still In Charge – What Do You Do Now?
With unemployment low, turnover high, and job openings plentiful, what should we be doing to ensure that we have, and keep, the people we need for both operational and strategic activities?
The Newest Member Reflects on the 2022 MOR Strategic Offsite
[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Tim Slottow, MOR Associates Leadership Coach. Tim may be reached at [email protected].] A better title for this Tuesday Reading might be, “Practice What We Preach +1+1+1”. I’m one of the newest members to the MOR Associates family and I just returned from my first annual 3 day Strategic Offsite […]
It's GO Time!
[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Sue Workman, Leadership Coach at MOR Associates. Sue may be reached at [email protected].] It’s Back to School! This time of year always has excitement in the air, a feeling that a fresh adventure is about to begin. The campus is buzzing with new faces, parents leaving their beloved children – […]
Strategy + Alignment → UNLEASHES Execution
[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Jack Wolfe and Jim Dezieck of MOR Associates. They may be reached at [email protected] and [email protected].] If you understand the vision, and are truly committed to executing it, you’ll make it happen! – from a special boss of Jack’s, long ago and far away, as you will see. Last week […]