Strategy

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Peggy Huston, Leadership Coach at MOR Associates.  Peggy may be reached at [email protected].]   Are you busy?  I’m busy.  It seems like many of us are busy.  It seems that we are so busy at times that we don’t have time to plan where we are going, but we sure are […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Jaci Lindburg, PhD, Associate Vice President for Digital Education and IT Strategy, University of Nebraska. She is a recent MOR program alum.  Jaci may be reached at [email protected].] At the University of Nebraska IT, one of our organization’s five strategic goals is alignment to what matters most in service to […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Brian McDonald, President of MOR Associates.  Brian may be reached at [email protected].]   As the virus is subsiding and employers across the United States look ahead to the recovery, what will the future of work look like? Will everyone return to work this fall? Will some people continue to work […]

Demographics Are Destiny (Maybe?) [Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Jack Wolfe and David Sweetman of MOR Associates. They may be reached at [email protected] and [email protected].] The number of high school graduates, post 2025, will drop substantially, particularly in the Northeast and Midwest.  Higher Education is likely to look quite different in a decade or so.  […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Sean McDonald, Vice-President of MOR Associates and David Sweetman, MOR Associates Leadership Coach and Consultant. They may be reached at [email protected] and [email protected].]   We recently had a number of MOR program graduations.  Graduations are a wonderful time in celebrating the accomplishments of our program participants, as well as looking […]

[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 […]

Emotional Intelligence, Strategic Thinking, and Layoffs [Today’s Tuesday Reading is a collaboration with Jack Wolfe, MOR Associates Senior Consultant and Executive Coach, and Rick Fredericks MOR Associates Program Leader and Leadership Coach.  Jack may be reached at [email protected] and Rick at [email protected]] This past week MOR wrapped up two pilot offerings for our MOR alumni community, Practice Groups. […]

An early 20th-century New Year’s resolution postcard1 put it this way:          Your New Year’s Resolution          Resolve to renew all your old resolves.          And add a few that are new.          Resolve to keep them as long as you can.          What more can a poor man do. People have been making “resolves” or resolutions, promises, commitments, plans, pledges, aspirations, aims, designs, etc. […]