Archive For March, 2011
You may recall that I blogged last week about recruiting excellent employees. Overall, building a team is one of the principal roles and goals of leadership. This means, to a great degree, getting the right people on the bus and in the right seats … and getting the wrong people off the bus. The vital [...]
As Georgia Health Sciences University advances its goal of becoming a leading academic health center and top-50 research university while transforming the institution and region into a health care and biomedical research destination, new faces will increasingly populate the campus. This is a wonderful thing—a sign of growth, vitality, energy and creativity. But recruiting new [...]
All institutions of higher learning need a unified, safe and attractive campus that not only enhances the institution but the community as well. The unfortunate accident last week on Laney-Walker Boulevard, in the midst of our campus, that seriously injured one of our colleagues is a reminder that the relationship of a community and its [...]
Communicating in a large, heterogeneous and complex enterprise can be difficult, very much like trying to make waves by throwing a pebble into a tar pit. Our challenges, like those of many other organizations, include: • Quantity—A constant influx of information makes it hard to distinguish important from unimportant data, particularly amid a busy schedule. [...]
