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08.05.2025
Finding Your Sweet Spot: The Unique Path to Habit Formation
Forming a new habit is not about sheer willpower – it’s about finding your sweet spot – the method, timing, and motivation that align best with you.
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07.29.2025
Learning to Pause
Whether responding to a question, making a decision, or a difficult conversation, pausing gives us time to think, breathe, and realign.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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06.24.2025
Advice from 2025 Commencement Speeches
Wisdom from select 2025 commencement speeches.
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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!
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06.10.2025
Navigating Workforce Instability: Employing Talent Agility in Higher Education
Higher education must foster talent agility to adapt, ensuring resilience and innovation amid workforce instability.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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