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Tuesday Reading

07.22.2025

Population Demographics are Destiny, 2025

Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Jack Wolfe, MOR Associates Senior Consultant and Executive Coach.  Jack may be reached at [email protected].
07.15.2025

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.
leading through disruptive change
07.08.2025

Calm in the Storm: Five Practices for Leading Through Disruptive Change

Leading during turbulent times requires supporting your people and leading with strategic focus. Here are five strategies to help.
07.01.2025

Strategic Leadership in Uncertain Times

As leaders, we have the responsibility and the opportunity to lead with vision, empathy, and resolve in a complex and rapidly changing landscape.
06.24.2025

Advice from 2025 Commencement Speeches

Wisdom from select 2025 commencement speeches.
06.17.2025

Embrace the Nice

I got feedback that I was “too nice.” I assume if they had given me advice, they would have said, “Be less nice!” My advice: embrace the nice!
06.03.2025

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.
05.27.2025

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.
05.20.2025

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.
05.13.2025

Navigating the Current Threat to Higher Education

The leader’s role is to position the organization to be successful in a constantly evolving environment.
05.06.2025

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.
04.29.2025

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.
04.22.2025

This Is The Work of Leadership

Transitioning from technical work to leadership involves coaching managers and aligning on context, philosophy, and goals.
04.15.2025

Stop Giving Advice and Start Asking the Right Coaching Questions

Michael Bungay Stanier’s book, The Coaching Habit, offers a simple yet powerful framework to transform how leaders coach by asking better questions.
04.08.2025

Challenge Assumptions to Create Smarter Higher Education IT Strategy

Our teams want to innovate and improve our institutions. Our leadership responsibility is focusing on measurable, beneficial outcomes.
04.01.2025

Prioritizing Self-Care in the Workplace Is Not Selfish

As the self-care trend emerged over the past few decades, I was too busy to pay much attention. My mindset has slowly evolved.
03.25.2025

10 Leadership Journey Guiding Principles

As I approach 25 years at Indiana University, I reflect on my values and how I made them uniquely me.
03.18.2025

Is Your Emotional Intelligence a Leadership Superpower or Kryptonite?

Emotional Intelligence wasn’t always a concept I grasped fully. I hadn’t realized my emotions communicated even when my words didn’t.
03.11.2025

Four Ways to Help Leaders Respond Better to Uncertainty

Pause, Process, Plan, and People. As you navigate through uncertainty toward trust; trust in self, an intentional path, and the people around you.
03.04.2025

The Challenge and Opportunity of Embracing Leadership Discomfort

Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Ranna Farzan, Associate Director, Technology Strategy and Planning, Harvard University Information Technology and a MOR program participant.  Ranna may be reached at [email protected] or via LinkedIn. Last month, right around my first MOR workshop, I also started reading Adam Grant’s Hidden Potential as part of a book club with other […]