People Matter
General Organization

People Matter

Working with governing boards is a great reminder of how central people are to organizations, and...

Boards Learn Too
General Organization

Boards Learn Too

One of the things I love most about working with the governing boards of educational organizations...

Recalculating Route (a sidebar)
Life

Recalculating Route (a sidebar)

At the eleventh hour, I was offered a job. With bags packed, two days before departing my job at...

Reset
Life

Reset

One relocation, one new job, and not a few headaches and sleepless nights later, I have resumed...

It’s All About Relationships
General Organization

It’s All About Relationships

If you’d asked me a few years ago what the critical factors for successful work were, I would...

The Allure and Challenge of Advisory Boards
General Organization

The Allure and Challenge of Advisory Boards

Advisory boards and similar ancillary bodies are almost always a good idea. Unfortunately, however,...

Why Liberal Education–or Something Like it–Matters for Developing Communities
Education

Why Liberal Education–or Something Like it–Matters for Developing Communities

One of my more formative work experiences was time I spent at the Association of American Colleges...

A Gaming Lesson for Organizations
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A Gaming Lesson for Organizations

I’ve a confession. A few weeks ago, I started “gaming”, if you can call it that....

Is There Such Thing as Too Much Entrepreneurship?
General Organization

Is There Such Thing as Too Much Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurship is a profoundly dynamic force. In his book Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Peter...

Urban Woman: How Social Media Makes it Possible
Labor

Urban Woman: How Social Media Makes it Possible

The third installment in my series called Urban Woman: Doing the Work I Love in the Most Unlikely...

Taking it Personally: International Women’s Day
Education

Taking it Personally: International Women’s Day

Today is the 100th annual International Women’s Day! This year’s United Nations theme...

Capitalizing Higher Education: A Lesson from the Social Sector?
Education

Capitalizing Higher Education: A Lesson from the Social Sector?

Hands-down, today’s nonprofit space outshines the higher education sector in innovation and...

When the Talent Isn’t There
Labor

When the Talent Isn’t There

A friend of mine wrote the other day to share news of a big promotion. For the past few years, he...

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  • People Matter

    Working with governing boards is a great reminder of how central people are to organizations, and how important it is, in the words of Jim Collins, to “get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats.” As it is across any organization, the  Read more »

    Posted on 22nd Jan 2012 0 comments
  • Boards Learn Too

    One of the things I love most about working with the governing boards of educational organizations is helping those who enable the education of others to understand that they, too, learn and must increase their capacity to do so. As with the institutions they govern,  learning within boards takes place on an individual and organizational  Read more »

    Posted on 18th Dec 2011 0 comments
  • Recalculating Route (a sidebar)

    At the eleventh hour, I was offered a job. With bags packed, two days before departing my job at the college and three days before the flight to my parent’s home, I was invited to join the staff of a small, growing nonprofit organization. Pangs of guilt and failure eased. No return to the den,  Read more »

    Posted on 25th Nov 2011 0 comments
  • Reset

    One relocation, one new job, and not a few headaches and sleepless nights later, I have resumed writing. Nothing like these first tentative taps on the keyboard after a blogging and social media hiatus. Have I been missed? What about my tweeps? Will I lose followers now that I am no longer in higher education–gone  Read more »

    Posted on 12th Nov 2011 0 comments
  • It’s All About Relationships

    If you’d asked me a few years ago what the critical factors for successful work were, I would have spoken about the importance of passion, a clear mission, process, policies, the “right” people, and structure. Since then, further work with teams and organizations has taught me the power of interpersonal relationships. Now, after reading Diana  Read more »

    Posted on 21st Jul 2011 0 comments

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