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Decide, Not Delay | She Leads the Way, Essay Five (opens the original)
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What does courage look like when there is no guarantee that a decision will work? In this fifth video essay from She Leads the Way: What Women Leaders Teach Us About the Leadership Higher Education Needs Now , Melissa Morriss-Olson draws from conversations with five women leaders who made consequential choices without the comfort of certainty. Kate Smith recalls the night she stood alone after speaking up at a campus forum. Carol Christ describes moving forward with plans to build student housin
With, Not Over | She Leads the Way — Essay Four (opens the original)
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What if some of the most consequential work of leadership happens before the leader decides? In this fourth video essay from She Leads the Way: What Women Leaders Teach Us About the Leadership Higher Education Needs Now , Melissa Morriss-Olson explores a pattern that emerged repeatedly in her conversationswith women presidents and senior leaders: leadership practiced not over people, but with them. Through the voices of Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, Carol Christ, T uajuanda Jordan , Mary-Beth Coope
The University Is a Unique Organization | David J. Staley (opens the original)
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The University Is a Unique Organization | David J. Staley Can a university really be run like a business? In this installment of University Design , David J. Staley explores why the university is unlike almost any other organization—and why that matters for the people who lead it. Drawing on research examining how universities have survived for nearly a millennium, Staley considers the university as a distinctive hybrid: a community of autonomous faculty operating alongside administrative and go
She Leads the Way, Essay Three: Identity — Reclaim, Not Reinvent (opens the original)
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What if becoming a stronger leader isn’t always about becoming someone new? In this special IngenioUs episode, we bring together voices from five remarkable women leaders featured in Essay Three of the She Leads the Way series: Pam Eddinger , Elsa Núñez , Marcheta Evans , Hilary Link , and Beverly Daniel Tatum Across their stories, a powerful theme emerges: identity matters. Leadership is often described as a process of growth and transformation. But these conversations suggest something differe
She Leads the Way | Essay Two: The Path: Composed, Not Climbed (opens the original)
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Over the past several weeks, we've been delighted toshare the beginning of She Leads the Way —a series of short essays inspired by Dr. Melissa Morriss-Olson's conversations with more than thirty women presidents and senior leaders featured on the IngenioUs Podcast. Each essay explores a leadership lesson that surfacedrepeatedly across these remarkable conversations. Today, we're pleased to share the second essay in theseries. Leadership journeys rarely unfold according to plan. In this essay, Me
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