Category: Leadership Thoughts
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Decline is not destiny. That might sound like a slogan, but I have lived it. I have seen institutions that were written off as lost causes set new records in just two years. I have watched change arrive faster than anyone expected, not because of a miracle, but because a community decided to stop waiting…
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Leadership is never just about vision, strategy, or metrics. It is about navigating people, personalities, and politics. Some of the people around you will be loyal, thoughtful, and courageous. But others? They will smile in your face while sharpening their knives behind your back. Every leader eventually encounters a Benedict Arnold. Their Judas. The person…
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They laughed with you at the holiday party. You shared rides to meetings. You consumed copious donuts in the hallway, talked shop off the record, texted inside jokes. You were in the same foxhole, or so you thought. And then the attack came. From the usual suspects—those who bristled at your insistence on equity, who…
Cloaking Inequity 