Communication and Leadership
« Previous EntriesThis week in the world of MBA 647 Organizational Change & Leadership, we’re reading John Kotter’s “Our Iceberg is Melting.” For this book, Kotter has taken winning principles from his Leading Change and Heart of Change, two books that focus on leading teams to success through periods of inevitable change. “Our Iceberg is Melting” synthesizes these ideas in the [...]
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On Tuesday, March 26th, men and women from around Buffalo came together to learn how to close the leadership gender gap. We learned that though women actually comprise the majority of the United States’ population, they hold only 17% of the nation’s legislative seats and 3% of executive positions in Fortune 500 companies. One of [...]
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In real life, women are amazing leaders, though they don’t have enough changes to prove it. Women make companies more productive. They bring variety, insight and new ideas to the table. So why is it, as we’ve explored in the past few weeks, that women are 50% of the population but only 17% of the national [...]
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It’s the feeling we all had on September 12, 2001. For a few days or weeks, when we looked at one another, we saw more than just another face. We knew what those in our community were thinking, knew how they were hurting, knew that we could make their day better by lending a hand [...]
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Here’s my idea of a dream team: We understand one another. Our opinions are equally valuable. We’re safe to create, take risks and call one another out. We just click. You can already imagine how this team works – focused, dedicated, caring and unstoppable. In a world where many teams feel stuck in neutral, what separates [...]
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There’s a secret that Google, Zappos and Facebook all know – the secret that makes them Dream Employers. It’s not just the swanky in-house lunches or the mythic indoor slides. The real secret behind these famously fun and wildly successful workplaces isn’t the perks, it’s a Human Resources practice called “hiring for fit.” Employers who [...]
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Why have women made so little gains since the feminist movement first launched decades ago? Everyday workplace issues are key, but at the root of the problem is one of our society’s most powerful institutions: the media. In our first story on women in leadership, we shared a pretty extreme statistic: women hold only 3% [...]
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This week Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!, banned employees from working from home. The resulting firestorm has called into question Mayer’s leadership ability, but the conversation always seems to come back to whether women have a place above the glass ceiling. So here are the facts: women in leadership have a distinct edge. A 2011 Harvard Business [...]
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One of the unique approaches of the ComLead Grad Program is that it emphasizes finding many ways to approach the same problem. When last year’s blog author took the Non-Profit Management seminar class, she shared how the Five Faces of Genius model helps leaders in the social sector. In the same class this semester, we’re [...]
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“Be the change you wish to see in the world,” Ghandi said. His call to put our ideals into practice has been taken up by many nonprofits, inspiring new recruits to make a difference by teaming up with non-profit organizations. The command takes on new meaning in the midst of the recession that has hit non-profit [...]
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