I will confess that I am always amused when economists or social scientists formalize something most of us already understood, as if they had discovered it. In this case, I… Read more

She Leads the Way: What Women Leaders Teach Us About the Leadership Higher Education Needs Now The third of seven short pieces drawn from conversations on the IngenioUs podcast. I’ve… Read more

She Leads the Way: What Women Leaders Teach Us About the Leadership Higher Education Needs Now The second of seven short pieces drawn from conversations on the IngenioUs podcast. I’ve… Read more

She Leads the Way: What Women Leaders Teach Us About the Leadership Higher Education Needs Now The first of seven short pieces drawn from conversations on the IngenioUs podcast. I’ve… Read more

A few years ago, I sat down at a pottery wheel for the first time and quickly discovered that clay did not care about my resume. The clay did not… Read more

There is a moment in leadership that I have come to recognize more clearly over time, though I did not always have language for it. It does not come with… Read more

I’m back from a consulting gig at a small university in a small city located somewhere in the Midwest. Compared to other similar institutions, this university is doing okay. Enrollment… Read more

The hidden discipline of leadership is not just transparency. It is knowing when, how, and how much to say. In an earlier reflection, I wrote about the cost of what… Read more

Leslie Valiant, The Importance of Being Educable: A New Theory of Human Uniqueness (Princeton University Press, 2024). Leslie Valiant begins his book with an extraordinary claim: “We live in an… Read more

Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of interviewing dozens of college and university presidents on the IngenioUs podcast. One insight keeps resurfacing in those conversations: the leaders who succeed… Read more