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Continue reading →: Why I Started Sharing Interview Questions Ahead of Time
I think we all know that feeling of being in an interview and getting hit with an absolute stumper of a question. No matter how long we’ve been at a job, no matter how many examples we could call upon, no matter how many times we’ve climbed that mountain, the…
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Continue reading →: When You Want it Fast and Good…and Not (too) Expensive
I was talking with someone the other day who suggested I write about my experiences with executing things fast and with quality. This is an interesting topic to me because I live my whole life in the fast lane. Let’s take a sports anecdote to demonstrate my meaning. I broke…
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Continue reading →: Decisions, Decision Roles, Decision Rights: RAPID & RACI
Decision rights – who can make decisions about what – are an important element of any organization. Clear rights ensure that matters such as legitimacy and authority are widely understood in a shared way horizontally and vertically. On the opposite end of the spectrum, a lack of clarity in this…
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Continue reading →: Intentional Onboarding
Following up on a recent post about one of my socialization tactics for onboarding new teams / team members – sharing my leadership and management practices – I figured that I would offer up a couple of other tools that I use. All of these efforts are tied back to…
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Continue reading →: Values-based Leadership
Something I started doing a couple of years ago when I had to hire up an entire span of care was documenting my core mission, values, management and leadership approach, and team practices. I found myself saying these same messages dozens of times. That’s when it hit me: just make…
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Continue reading →: Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma: Alternative Credentials
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking the last year about the inherent tension between the core business of higher education – certificates and degrees – and the disruptive innovation that’s been brewing for a while: alternative credentials. As Clayton Christensen may have predicted (he and his namesake institute have…