Category: leadership

  • Rank, Title, Position, and Power

    One of higher education’s greatest weaknesses, operationally, is our continued fixation on rank and title. For all of the vaunted progressiveness of higher education, we are deeply conservative in our organizational structures and our relationship to and framing of power within our organizations. Institutions of higher ed are primarily very hierarchical, and despite structures of…

  • Leadership and Listening

    Over the last few years I’ve spent a good amount of time studying leadership, both formally, through classes and reading, and informally, by observing the leaders around me, both good and…less good. I think there are a lot of different ways to be a good leader, and many different kinds of people can lead well,…