Strategy

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. […]

Today’s Tuesday Reading is an essay by Matthew E. Mooney, Assistant Dean for Teaching, Learning and Technology the at Pennsylvania State University’s Smeal College of Business. His essay first appeared as a leaders program reflection last fall. [Matt may be reached at <[email protected]>.]    I’ve so appreciated previous reflections. It’s comforting to see that while we are […]

Last week the Tuesday Reading, On Being Grateful,1 focused on showing appreciation and called attention to a quote from Robert Emmons, University of California, Davis psychologist and author: “Feeling gratitude starts off with the realization of what we have received from others and what it has cost them.”2   This led me to suggest four ways that […]

Two days from today on the fourth Thursday of November, people in the United States will celebrate a national day of Thanksgiving. A similar holiday is celebrated on the same or other days by people in many nations.   In the United States, a day set apart for giving thanks has been observed, most years, […]

… to be truly effective, you need to be!   Bill Taylor, Robert J. Smith Professor of Accountancy at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Business and an expert on subjective performance evaluation, has said it this way: “… I’m convinced that if you truly want people to elevate their performance, you have first to […]

Recently on TV, I was attracted to a Cascade dishwasher detergent commercial featuring child actress Sierra Richards, who seeing her “mother” rinse off the dishes before putting them in the open dishwasher asks, “just what does the dishwasher do?” This question is an example of thinking critically about what the “mother” in the commercial was doing. […]

… they surround us   No matter where you look, you will find both unwritten and written rules – rules at work, rules that are personal to you, rules for your family, rules about your social interactions, rules at home, rules everywhere. Some are “written” by others including your organization, and many, likely the majority, by […]