Gentle Leadership

Caroline Wazer has researched and validated that the following text was used repeatedly by Jimmy Carter:

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

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Communicating in Stressful Situations

Matt Abrahams offers guidance for communicating when under pressure .

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A Coaching Mindset

Jianping Wang shares the power of a coaching mindset for administering an academic institution or program.

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How Successful Leaders Communicate

Victorio Duran III discourses on leadership and communication .

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Leadership Failure

Scott Gregory reviews traits held by incompetent leaders . On the other hand, Ronald Riggio listed the positive leadership competencies.

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Lessons from the Pandemic

Mary Hinton describes lessons education leaders received from the coronavirus pandemic.

The gift of a renewed focus on community
The gift of clarity on what matters
The gift of strategic surrender
The gift of listening
The gift of imperfection.

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Educators as Leaders

Martha Lagace interviews Thomas DeLong about his new book, which talks about teachers as leaders .

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Radically Open Administration

Michael Bugeja discusses being an able administrator in an academic environment. Most of his points apply to managers outside of academia.

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Leadership

Martha Heller provides tips for leading a thriving digital corporation .

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Leadership Books Recommended in Forbes

Jim Ludema and Amber Johnson have developed a list of books on leadership .

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Fear and Leadership

James Heskett asks if inspiring fear should be a tool of modern leadership.

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Frequent Changes in Leadership

Terry McGlynn observes that constantly changing leaders either inhibits long-term planning or makes evaluating leadership impossible. He argues for stable leadership which has time to make substantial change.

McGlynn writes from his university experience, but I observe that some of the same arguments can be applied to term limits on political officeholders.

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The Opportunity Cost of Taking Time to Learn Corporate Culture

Jeffrey Selingo observes that the lengthy leadership onboarding process used at most universities [or other bureaucracies] slows innovation and change.

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Changing Course

Allison Vaillancourt provides tips for administrators charged with enacting change . A bolus dose of humility is the major recommendation.

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Leadership Skills

Linda Musthaler suggest critical leadership skills for those in information technology management.

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Digital Citizenship

Terry Heick explores the aspects of character displayed in good digital citizenship .

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Sixteen Traits of Great IT Leaders

Richard Hein shares the "Sixteen Traits of Great IT Leaders "

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