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Tuesday Reading
04.23.2024
You Can Say NO
While you don’t want to be known as a “no” person, you do want to be seen as a team player. That makes the situation …
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04.16.2024
The MOR Hardware Store for Life
Do you crave a transformative experience? Do you want to take a quantum leap? Step right this way; MOR Hardware has y…
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04.09.2024
Handling the Gift of Negative Feedback
If you’re like me, you dwell on feedback or deviations from your meticulous plans. A single negative comment can over…
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04.02.2024
Be Kind. Rewind.
Starting at Blockbuster video as a video store clerk I decided at age 17 I wasn’t cut out for management. Then some t…
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03.26.2024
Enrollments – Cliff After Cliff After ???
I hope you love numbers as much as I do. Let me offer some, to understand Higher Education’s future enrollment and re…
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03.19.2024
The Leadership Toolset
What leadership tools do you rely on? What new tools do you need to add? What could you practice with others for comp…
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03.12.2024
Appreciation in the Face of Anticipation
Anticipation keeps us moving forward. It enables us to apply what we’ve learned. But there’s a trap: Over-anticipatio…
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03.05.2024
Psychological Safety
When psychological safety is present, it creates a more innovative, stronger community. How do we build such a team e…
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02.27.2024
Leading, Managing, Doing, and AI
The path forward is clear. Leadership in the age of AI is about leading change and enhancing our human capabilities.
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02.20.2024
Take a Leap!
February 29 – it’s a whole extra day – how will you be intentional and strategic in spending it?
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Emotional Intelligence
03.12.2024
Appreciation in the Face of Anticipation
Anticipation keeps us moving forward. It enables us to apply what we’ve learned. But there’s a trap: Over-anticipatio…
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04.25.2023
I Grieve and I Appreciate
My father recently passed away after struggling with Parkinson’s & COPD. As I was on this journey, I realized the imp…
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01.24.2023
Six Steps Toward Resilient Leadership
Feeling burned out as the leader? Resilience is the capacity to meet adversity, setbacks and trauma, and recover to l…
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10.04.2022
A way to improve workplace stress
Gratitude makes us feel good on both the sending and receiving side. However, it goes further: expressing gratitude a…
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07.12.2022
Developing Resilience
Resilience provides confidence to step up and lead. Resilient leaders are able to overcome setbacks and help others o…
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06.21.2022
Back to Basics
[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Susan Washburn, Program Leader and Leadership Coach at MOR Associates. Susan may be…
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04.19.2022
What Would Donna Do?
What Would Donna Do? [Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Beth Holtz, Senior Manager for Strategic Initiatives and Admin…
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03.29.2022
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff
[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Brandon Bernier, Vice President IT and CIO, Colorado State University. He is a MOR p…
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03.22.2022
Lead with emotion but don’t let emotion lead you
[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Lori Green, Program Leader and Leadership Coach at MOR Associates. Lori may be reac…
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01.25.2022
Listening and Hearing What Isn’t Said
[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Ron Kraemer. He is currently retired. Ron previously was Vice President for Inform…
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Leadership Reflections
02.06.2024
Developing a Leadership Community
What transforms a group unfamiliar with each other into an inclusive, close-knit cohort that genuinely wants to help …
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01.23.2024
Leadership – The Awakening Seed of Transformation
Let me tell you a story. As a young person and well into my teens, I was severely introverted. I was afraid of my own…
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11.28.2023
10 Years of MOR: What Are You Still Serving?
I have been a MOR graduate for ten years! My cohort created a menu. I started reflecting on what I still serve off th…
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11.07.2023
Finding Balance, Sustaining Progress
I am grateful for how my cohort and coaches have helped me to look inward, an honest look at myself and my mindset. I…
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09.05.2023
Breaking the Busyness Cycle
I tend to say “yes” to everything. There are many reasons. For a long time, this served me well enough, but it all be…
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07.25.2023
Leadership and Bingo
I volunteer as a bingo caller at my church. During a recent game, my mind meandered to how a good bingo caller is sim…
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07.18.2023
Aspiring To Lead Like Ted Lasso
I am a huge Ted Lasso fan. It was so refreshing to see a show achieve success with a leader that was kind, ethical, h…
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06.12.2023
Developing Passion and Upskilling
There have been times when my work started to feel stale less engaging. Learning a new skill or tackling a new challe…
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04.04.2023
Leading From Wherever You Are
At first, the prospect of leaving management was concerning. What would it mean for my career prospects? What would h…
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11.29.2022
What do I really want to be known for?
I was flipping through my notebook. I wrote down what I want to be known for. Later I circled the question “Is what I…
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
11.01.2022
The Power of Community
A safe and caring community is one that has a connection through trust, vulnerability, and a genuine desire to care f…
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03.01.2022
Losing Talent – What Can We Do?
Creating a highly engaged workforce is one way to counter the potential loss of people. Here are five strategies to …
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02.08.2022
The Next Leaders
Where will the next leaders come from? Think about the talent around us and how we might think differently in answeri…
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09.28.2021
The Poetry of Practice
Thinking of a poet’s dedication to their practice reminds me of what it takes to form a habit and change neurological…
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06.22.2021
Commencement Speeches 2021
[Jim Bruce, today’s author, is a Senior Fellow and Executive Coach at MOR Associates. He previously was Professor of …
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05.25.2021
Implications of the Hybrid Scenario
[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Brian McDonald, President of MOR Associates. Brian may be reached at brian@morassoc…
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05.18.2021
What’s Next? Hybrid? Remote? Everyone Back?
[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Brian McDonald, President of MOR Associates. Brian may be reached at brian@morassoc…
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04.27.2021
Demographics Are Destiny (Maybe?)
Demographics Are Destiny (Maybe?) [Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Jack Wolfe and David Sweetman of MOR Associates. T…
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