The actual quote, by Dr. Martin Luther King, in Letter from a Birmingham Jail, is “I am in Birmingham because injustice is here” For today’s post, I just want to echo the call by a brilliant scholar and dear colleague, Lisa Schweitzer, and encourage you to read Letter from a Birmimgham Jail in its entirety, […]
Leadership Style vs Leadership Substance
Warning: Here comes another sports anecdote about leadership! As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a sports junkie and I watch a lot of live televised games, especially NBA and WNBA games (having played basketball for my high school team and intramural leagues in college), as well as the NFL, tennis, track & field, and more. That […]
Is There an Upside to Admitting Being Wrong? A Surprising Answer…
There is potentially a burgeoning movement afoot in the social sciences (dubbed “intellectual humility” in one article on this). The idea is to get researchers to admit when findings (often influential) of their previous studies turn out to be wrong. The ugly truth in academic research is that it’s often impossible to replicate the findings […]
Leadership in Institutional Pressure Cookers
ESPN’s Outside the Lines today was a special episode covering the biggest stories of the year. (As a side note, I love Outside the Lines — I’m a closet borderline sports junkie and binge on sports and sports news when I can. OTL in particular is a favorite of mine because it takes a deeper […]
Leadership behind closed doors?
This week, team owners in the NFL met and decided to introduce a new rule to force players to stand during the national anthem played before games, or face a series of fines. Ostensibly, this decision was a response to players kneeling during the anthem last season, a movement against police brutality of African Americans […]
Leadership tips that lead to leadership failure
Yikes. I just heard from one of my colleagues (outside of academia) who was thrust into leadership after a number of higher-ups in her division quit. She has risen to the occasion admirably, immersing herself in books, and trainings, trying to figure out her leadership style, motivational techniques, team building, and all the secrets to […]
