Published in It's Your Turn·Jul 23, 2021Leadership Shortsightedness: An IT Case StudyAn educational institution that we will call College X has instituted a campus-wide hiring freeze to aid in its economic recovery from COVID. …Leadership2 min read
Jun 23, 2021Who Drives Change?The headline in the New York Times this morning blared, “Change comes to the N.C.A.A.” With yesterday’s unanimous Supreme Court ruling in the Alston case paving the way for student-athletes to receive education-related payments — combined with several states enacting Name-Image-Likeness legislation that goes into effect on July 1st —…Leadership2 min read
Published in It's Your Turn·May 4, 2021Accountability: The Other “Bad Word”When did “accountability” become a bad word? A word to be feared on both sides of the coin — holding others accountable, or being held accountable personally? The definition of accountability is: the fact or condition of being accountable; responsibility. Its sister word, responsibility, has a few meanings: the opportunity…Leadership4 min read
Published in It's Your Turn·Feb 18, 2021Death of the Snow DayInnovation is what drives change and for all of the great things it creates and immeasurable ways our lives are better for it, it also sometimes has unintended consequences. When Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook in his dorm room, I doubt he envisioned a day where its community members would use…Playlist3 min read
Published in It's Your Turn·Feb 12, 2021Pandemic Induced Professional EnlightenmentWe are approaching the one-year mark of the global pandemic. For many people, flipping the calendar to 2021 brought hope and optimism. …Leadership5 min read
Published in It's Your Turn·Apr 1, 2020Faux LeadershipWhen I was a little girl, we spent lots of time with our extended family. It’s how we were raised — surrounded all the time by aunts and uncles, cousins, second-cousins, grandparents and great-aunts and -uncles. My great-aunt had a beautiful fur coat that she wore on special occasions. It…Leadership4 min read
Published in It's Your Turn·Mar 23, 2020What is Your Mirror Telling You?We are living in unprecedented times with the spreading of this virus. I won’t write more about that specifically as there is enough information and opinion about what it is, what it means and how this will play out from individuals far more knowledgeable than me. What I will write…Leadership4 min read
Published in It's Your Turn·Feb 10, 2020Builder or Wrecker?I am home from work today with day 2 of the flu. One good thing about being sick is that if forces me to stop moving and just lie around. I’m getting lots of quiet time to think, naps, and rare time with my television. As a child of the…Leadership4 min read
Published in It's Your Turn·Jan 21, 2020How are you Delivering your Message?In today’s age of information overload, it can feel like you are in a constant fight for the attention of your consumer/audience. More and more, companies and agencies seem to be driving home the litigious consequences of not listening to what they have to say. We are bombarded by “Terms”…Dogs3 min read
Published in It's Your Turn·Oct 27, 2019If I have to do your job…Chasing. Nothing drives me crazier than having to chase people for things that they are responsible for that I depend on. Depend on to do my work well. Depend on to bring something to resolution. Depend on to directly help/impact the person I’m waiting on for a response. I try…Productivity3 min read