School Leaders Must Focus on the Big Picture When Confronting Challenges
On May 11, 2023, the second season of the Enrollment Management Association’s (EMA) Impossible Questions Podcast began with a special...
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Ari Betof
Jul 154 min
How to Lead Change Without Exhausting Political Capital
One of the most impossible questions a school administrator can ponder is surely: How can administrators lead strategic change from...
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Ari Betof
Apr 183 min
This Is How to Accelerate to Make Your Change Project a Success
Management expert John P. Kotter developed his eight-step change model over decades of research and practical work, introducing it as a...
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Ari Betof
Mar 293 min
Institutionalizing and Sustaining Positive Change in Your Organization
The terms “change” and “institutionalize” might at first seem to be mirror opposites. Yet Harvard Business School professor emeritus John...
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Ari Betof
Mar 164 min
And the Survey Says…Give Us More Work-Life Balance
Some employers and employees seem to be working at cross-purposes when it comes to work-life balance. In 2021, at the height of the COVID...
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Ari Betof
Jan 314 min
This Is How to Avoid Burnout by Adopting a Hunter-Gatherer Workday
We all need work-life balance (or work-life synergy) not just to thrive, but to survive. For too many of us, trying to manage these...
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Ari Betof
Jan 173 min
This Is How to Be a Change Leader, not a Change Manager
Organizational leaders around the world are feeling what internationally recognized change leadership expert and Harvard Business School...
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jsalangsang0
Nov 21, 20233 min
Spotlight on Step 6: Small Victories on the Path to Change
If you’re looking for the holy grail of work-life balance, artificial intelligence has got some good news for you. And don’t worry: None...
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jsalangsang0
Oct 23, 20234 min
AI Can Help Structure a Better Work-Life Balance
If you’re looking for the holy grail of work-life balance, artificial intelligence has got some good news for you. And don’t worry: None...
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Ari Betof
Sep 25, 20234 min
Clearing the Path for Change Means Removing Bureaucracy
So you want to drive change. What’s standing in your way? If you’re working on a strategic plan to support much-needed change in your...
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jsalangsang0
May 24, 20233 min
The Still-Evolving Law on Work-Life Balance
While “work-life balance” is a cultural and social concept, legislation can—and has—supported it, to the benefit of individual workers,...
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Ari Betof
Mar 2, 20234 min
The Benefits of Cultivating Purposeful Curiosity
If you think about it, learning to ask the right questions—and to ask them at the optimum moment—often means the difference between...
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Ari Betof
Oct 12, 20224 min
How Does Kotter's Change Model Help Businesses to Manage Organizational Change?
Organizational change has always been a huge challenge. It's not just you: today's businesses face a sobering 70 percent failure rate for...
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Ari Betof
Oct 12, 20224 min
Origins in Gilded Age philanthropy
You could argue that modern CSR programs represent an evolution of the philanthropy pioneered by prominent "captains of industry" like...
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Ari Betof
Oct 12, 20224 min
The Origins of Corporate Social Responsibility: From the Gilded Age to Today
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) requires companies to be accountable not just to their bottom line, owners, and shareholders, but...
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Ari Betof
Oct 12, 20223 min
5 of the World’s Most Generous Philanthropists
According to The Sunday Times, 2022 marked a dramatic rise in environmental donations, along with increasing numbers of people of color...
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Ari Betof
Oct 11, 20223 min
History in Focus: 3 Fascinating Stories from Pennsylvania's Past
Founded by William Penn as a haven for Quakers, Pennsylvania was one of the original 13 colonies. The state’s capital, Philadelphia,...
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Ari Betof
Jul 20, 20223 min
Youth Mental Health Receives Boost from $15M MacKenzie Scott Gift
In February 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Morgan Stanley Foundation reported that 23 percent of young people in America...
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Ari Betof
Jun 28, 20223 min
Rubacha’s Gift - $30M to Create the Real Estate Solutions of the Future
Paul Rubacha has gifted[A1] University $30 million to create a new real estate department. The co-founder of Ashley Capital, who earned...
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Ari Betof
Jun 21, 20223 min
Stanford’s First New School in 70 Years Will Focus on Climate Change
Together with funds from other donors, Stanford University will use its largest donation ever, a $1.1bn gift from John and Ann Doerr, to...
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