Tuesday Reading
Surprises Are the New Normal; Resilience Is the New Skill
Today’s Tuesday Reading is “Surprises Are the New Normal; Resilience Is the New Skill,” an essay by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor at the Harvard Business School where she specializes in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. The essay appeared in July 2013 in the HBR blog. Kantor introduces the essay with the […]
Act Like a Leader Before You Are One
Many aspire to be a formal leader at some point in their career. The Tuesday Reading for today has some advice for you: “Act Like A Leader Before You Are One”. In her HBR blog, Amy Gallo, contributing editor at the Harvard Business Review, suggests that you begin to act, think, and communicate like a […]
Less Push, More Pull
Today’s Tuesday Reading is a guest reading from the pen of Greg Busby, Director, Planning and Program Management, Office of the CIO, Cornell University. It first appeared as a Reflection to the ITLP 2013 cohort. Let’s face it – we live in a Push world. Things to do arrive on our desk all the […]
Schmooze or Lose: How the Lost Art of Negotiation Led to a Shutdown
Jack and Suzy Welch say it simply: “You have to schmooze.” They point out that you must schmooze early and often, well before you need the relationship. In today’s reading “Schmooze or Lose: How the Lost Art of Negotiation Led to a Shutdown”, which first appeared in Linkedin, they note that building relationships is what you […]
Schmooze or Lose: How the Lost Art of Negotiation Led to a Shutdown
Today’s reading “Schmooze or Lose: How the Lost Art of Negotiation Led to a Shutdown” is from the pens of Jack and Suzy Welch and first appeared on LinkedIn. Jack Welch is Founder of the Jack Welch Management Institute at Strayer University and former CEO of General Electric. Suzy, his wife, is an author – 10-10-10 […]
Foster a Culture of Gratitude
“I don’t care if you like each other right now, but you will respect each other, ” said Coach Herman Boone to his high school football team in the movie Remember the Titans. In todays Tuesday Reading, Christine Riordan, Provost and professor of management at the University of Kentucky, says it similarly in her essay […]
Bringing in the Lions
We have all had experiences when we’ve been trying to sell a new idea of strategizing as to whether to invite the critics, the naysayers, the we’ve-tried-that-before colleagues, etc. to discussions we are having to explain and explore our idea or whether we should manage attendance at these discussions to only include individuals who are […]
Prepare Your Brain for Change
A tired and stressed out brain hates change. Change means learning, something new, creating new connections that lead to a new neural network. And, this doesn’t go well if the brain isn’t ready. Too often our work lives make it hard for our brain to learn – demands of our jobs and our unhealthy sleeping and eating habits. […]
To Strengthen Your Confidence, Look To Your Past
Among the attributes that all leaders need is confidence – not too much so as to be blinded by benign overly confidence and not too little to feel inadequate. This week’s Tuesday Reading, “To Strengthen Your Confidence, Look To Your Past” <http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/04/to_strengthen_your_confidence.html>, comes from the pens of Amy Jen Su and Muriel Maignan Wilkins. Su and […]
What Leaders Won’t Do
Many leaders spend many late nights in the office, sacrifice their own resources, etc. all to increase the likelihood of success. Sometimes this comes at the expense of people’s health, their families, and their sanity. But, Patrick Lencioni from Table Group notes in “What Leaders Won’t Do” <http://www.wobi.com/blog/leadership/what-leaders-wont-do>, while many leaders make great sacrifices to increase the likelihood of success, […]