One of the most respected leadership writers, Susan Komives has had a profound impact on student leadership development through her scholarly work.
Susan Komives
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Lead Confidently
“If it’s a group that I’m a leader of or a member of, we can do something, we have the capacity. So the mindset is one of, 'We can do it because we’re smart, and we can learn something. But we’ll figure this out, we can do this together.' And being humble enough to say, 'And I’m one of the group.'”
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So do you think that maybe that that's a sign of an effective leader? Or somebody who, who could spot the potential greatness and just encourage and open doors and make suggestions. I don't think all leaders have to be that way to be effective. But yes, that's a marvelous leader. As somebody I'd like to work for, they could work for me or I could work for them to be around a person who inspires you to your best self and who brings that out in you and who says, wow, these talents, you got to work on this a little bit, but these talents are phenomenal where you're almost unconditionally regarded well. When you're able and have the capacity to do these things, then there's no limit to the, what you can do. You're that person. Some of that is, some of that is Maleta about if you want to accomplish something, get some good people in the room together just to talk about it. And a synergy that comes out of six people in the room from across campus dealing with an issue. The outcomes are guaranteed to be the better. So do you think that maybe it's a mark of a good leader to figure out who six people would be, that would be a talent. I do encourage five or 12 or however many of the matter of fact in the speech I gave Thursday to the Aspen group, part of that was find the green, where are the green spots on your campus? Where is it just glowing and vibrating? That you could give it a good idea and they can implement, they can make it happen while another office, it would die on the vine. And they would gripe the whole time that they didn't have enough money. And we all know departments that are better or not on that. If you plant opportunities and good ideas in the right places, they can flourish with good support. And knowing where that would be and developing more of those, it is important. In 2011, you were awarded the Faculty award for teaching the Board of Regents University. What connections do you see between good teaching and effective leadership? I think the, well, I see a one to one correspondence. I think they're overlap, they're almost the same thing. I think the teaching role is inherently, by definition, also a leadership role you can create. You can do that in. Some of the most challenging teaching I've done is in co, creating a knowledge based together. That we then collaborated on where I wasn't the only one who knew anything but we were building. And some of that is two or three of my books have come out of class projects with grad students who are just brilliant, didn't know they could write that well. I said I can help you learn to write and I can help you shape your ideas. So we'll work on an outline first, but you really can do this. So can you name a couple of books that have come out of your class? Somebody's going to hear this and what? For example, we haven't talked about the social change model of leadership development yet, but when we developed that, there was no textbook that followed. People are adopting the model all over the place in higher education in 1996 and into the early 2000. But we needed a textbook for students. I had my class write the first textbook. Part of the class was Learning Leadership, discussing what should be in it, doing their Lit reviews for it. And I knew enough to guide them in that. But they were putting together chapters for this book. This was a graduates, my leadership educator class. They want they're motivated to do leadership. And I said in this class I'm going to be your teacher and co learner. But then we're going to shift over and I'll be your editor. The chapters won't all be done, We'll have them in a done draft form, but you have to hang in with me if you want to be published to get these into a published form. Of course every single person did because they got a publication out of it helps their career. Leadership for a better world is one another is the Handbook for student Leadership Development was done in another class. And the second edition, we had some people update their chapters and then added some new grad students to writing other chapters. The Facilitator's Guide for the Social Change model were students in the class. Yeah, we had several books out of those classes. I'm very proud to say not once that then I said I wrote, I've seen faculty that take students work and put it in their own book, like talk about unethical. That's terrible. But in this case, everybody could launch their careers as leadership scholars or educators, knowing they had some publications matter. So part of what you were doing as the leader and the teacher was really creating opportunities for them to launch their careers? That's right. Did they know that's what you were doing? Yes, we talked about it. It was transparent. Yeah, I mean, we did I even remember one class, my intro to student affairs class. I have lots of projects in that class and way too much work. I knew it was, you know, it's like one of the students called it student affairs. In the fire hose, it's coming at you. And I said, but every single thing I'm going to ask you to do, I can tell you what I think what it should contribute to your professional orientation, your personal development, it matter in your career. They were willing to trust and they said, okay, we'll do all the hard work and they could see the benefit of it. I even sometimes stepped outside myself and say, let's just talk about what we should have gotten out of that discussion. Like what did that matter, that we had that difference of opinion you always go to be making visible what might for some stay in visible. Do you think that qualities of somebody who is effective as a leader are inspiring trust and making things that might not necessarily seem evident at first visible. Those are all useful qualities. I mean, I wouldn't come up with ten things, but those things are all effect. Well, yeah, I'm just trying to figure out I understand what's in the jar here. Okay. And that award, I was so touched by that award. That's a system award for the Maryland system. So the University of Maryland system has ten or 12 institutions in the one that you got in 2011. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I noticed that you're mentioning. Yeah, That was very meaningful and that brings the mentoring into it too. Mentoring is really important to mentoring is another effective quality quality of an effective leader. You.
Understand Leadership
“I knew that I would want to be that kind of administrator, leader, counselor, person in my career. And as it got more intentional and I learned more about leadership, I realized I was bringing people into leadership by doing that because it was affirming their qualities that made them effective working with others that they may not see ”
Description of the video:
So do you think that maybe that that's a sign of an effective leader? Or somebody who, who could spot the potential greatness and just encourage and open doors and make suggestions. I don't think all leaders have to be that way to be effective. But yes, that's a marvelous leader. As somebody I'd like to work for, they could work for me or I could work for them to be around a person who inspires you to your best self and who brings that out in you and who says, wow, these talents, you got to work on this a little bit, but these talents are phenomenal where you're almost unconditionally regarded well. When you're able and have the capacity to do these things, then there's no limit to the, what you can do. You're that person. Some of that is, some of that is Maleta about if you want to accomplish something, get some good people in the room together just to talk about it. And a synergy that comes out of six people in the room from across campus dealing with an issue. The outcomes are guaranteed to be the better. So do you think that maybe it's a mark of a good leader to figure out who six people would be, that would be a talent. I do encourage five or 12 or however many of the matter of fact in the speech I gave Thursday to the Aspen group, part of that was find the green, where are the green spots on your campus? Where is it just glowing and vibrating? That you could give it a good idea and they can implement, they can make it happen while another office, it would die on the vine. And they would gripe the whole time that they didn't have enough money. And we all know departments that are better or not on that. If you plant opportunities and good ideas in the right places, they can flourish with good support. And knowing where that would be and developing more of those, it is important. In 2011, you were awarded the Faculty award for teaching the Board of Regents University. What connections do you see between good teaching and effective leadership? I think the, well, I see a one to one correspondence. I think they're overlap, they're almost the same thing. I think the teaching role is inherently, by definition, also a leadership role you can create. You can do that in. Some of the most challenging teaching I've done is in co, creating a knowledge based together. That we then collaborated on where I wasn't the only one who knew anything but we were building. And some of that is two or three of my books have come out of class projects with grad students who are just brilliant, didn't know they could write that well. I said I can help you learn to write and I can help you shape your ideas. So we'll work on an outline first, but you really can do this. So can you name a couple of books that have come out of your class? Somebody's going to hear this and what? For example, we haven't talked about the social change model of leadership development yet, but when we developed that, there was no textbook that followed. People are adopting the model all over the place in higher education in 1996 and into the early 2000. But we needed a textbook for students. I had my class write the first textbook. Part of the class was Learning Leadership, discussing what should be in it, doing their Lit reviews for it. And I knew enough to guide them in that. But they were putting together chapters for this book. This was a graduates, my leadership educator class. They want they're motivated to do leadership. And I said in this class I'm going to be your teacher and co learner. But then we're going to shift over and I'll be your editor. The chapters won't all be done, We'll have them in a done draft form, but you have to hang in with me if you want to be published to get these into a published form. Of course every single person did because they got a publication out of it helps their career. Leadership for a better world is one another is the Handbook for student Leadership Development was done in another class. And the second edition, we had some people update their chapters and then added some new grad students to writing other chapters. The Facilitator's Guide for the Social Change model were students in the class. Yeah, we had several books out of those classes. I'm very proud to say not once that then I said I wrote, I've seen faculty that take students work and put it in their own book, like talk about unethical. That's terrible. But in this case, everybody could launch their careers as leadership scholars or educators, knowing they had some publications matter. So part of what you were doing as the leader and the teacher was really creating opportunities for them to launch their careers? That's right. Did they know that's what you were doing? Yes, we talked about it. It was transparent. Yeah, I mean, we did I even remember one class, my intro to student affairs class. I have lots of projects in that class and way too much work. I knew it was, you know, it's like one of the students called it student affairs. In the fire hose, it's coming at you. And I said, but every single thing I'm going to ask you to do, I can tell you what I think what it should contribute to your professional orientation, your personal development, it matter in your career. They were willing to trust and they said, okay, we'll do all the hard work and they could see the benefit of it. I even sometimes stepped outside myself and say, let's just talk about what we should have gotten out of that discussion. Like what did that matter, that we had that difference of opinion you always go to be making visible what might for some stay in visible. Do you think that qualities of somebody who is effective as a leader are inspiring trust and making things that might not necessarily seem evident at first visible. Those are all useful qualities. I mean, I wouldn't come up with ten things, but those things are all effect. Well, yeah, I'm just trying to figure out I understand what's in the jar here. Okay. And that award, I was so touched by that award. That's a system award for the Maryland system. So the University of Maryland system has ten or 12 institutions in the one that you got in 2011. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I noticed that you're mentioning. Yeah, That was very meaningful and that brings the mentoring into it too. Mentoring is really important to mentoring is another effective quality quality of an effective leader. You.
Understand Leadership
“I used the term earlier, philosophy of leadership, because I’ve come to see leadership as how you enact the philosophies that you hold about it. And I think there’s something to unpack about that more than I have. ”
Description of the video:
So do you think that maybe that that's a sign of an effective leader? Or somebody who, who could spot the potential greatness and just encourage and open doors and make suggestions. I don't think all leaders have to be that way to be effective. But yes, that's a marvelous leader. As somebody I'd like to work for, they could work for me or I could work for them to be around a person who inspires you to your best self and who brings that out in you and who says, wow, these talents, you got to work on this a little bit, but these talents are phenomenal where you're almost unconditionally regarded well. When you're able and have the capacity to do these things, then there's no limit to the, what you can do. You're that person. Some of that is, some of that is Maleta about if you want to accomplish something, get some good people in the room together just to talk about it. And a synergy that comes out of six people in the room from across campus dealing with an issue. The outcomes are guaranteed to be the better. So do you think that maybe it's a mark of a good leader to figure out who six people would be, that would be a talent. I do encourage five or 12 or however many of the matter of fact in the speech I gave Thursday to the Aspen group, part of that was find the green, where are the green spots on your campus? Where is it just glowing and vibrating? That you could give it a good idea and they can implement, they can make it happen while another office, it would die on the vine. And they would gripe the whole time that they didn't have enough money. And we all know departments that are better or not on that. If you plant opportunities and good ideas in the right places, they can flourish with good support. And knowing where that would be and developing more of those, it is important. In 2011, you were awarded the Faculty award for teaching the Board of Regents University. What connections do you see between good teaching and effective leadership? I think the, well, I see a one to one correspondence. I think they're overlap, they're almost the same thing. I think the teaching role is inherently, by definition, also a leadership role you can create. You can do that in. Some of the most challenging teaching I've done is in co, creating a knowledge based together. That we then collaborated on where I wasn't the only one who knew anything but we were building. And some of that is two or three of my books have come out of class projects with grad students who are just brilliant, didn't know they could write that well. I said I can help you learn to write and I can help you shape your ideas. So we'll work on an outline first, but you really can do this. So can you name a couple of books that have come out of your class? Somebody's going to hear this and what? For example, we haven't talked about the social change model of leadership development yet, but when we developed that, there was no textbook that followed. People are adopting the model all over the place in higher education in 1996 and into the early 2000. But we needed a textbook for students. I had my class write the first textbook. Part of the class was Learning Leadership, discussing what should be in it, doing their Lit reviews for it. And I knew enough to guide them in that. But they were putting together chapters for this book. This was a graduates, my leadership educator class. They want they're motivated to do leadership. And I said in this class I'm going to be your teacher and co learner. But then we're going to shift over and I'll be your editor. The chapters won't all be done, We'll have them in a done draft form, but you have to hang in with me if you want to be published to get these into a published form. Of course every single person did because they got a publication out of it helps their career. Leadership for a better world is one another is the Handbook for student Leadership Development was done in another class. And the second edition, we had some people update their chapters and then added some new grad students to writing other chapters. The Facilitator's Guide for the Social Change model were students in the class. Yeah, we had several books out of those classes. I'm very proud to say not once that then I said I wrote, I've seen faculty that take students work and put it in their own book, like talk about unethical. That's terrible. But in this case, everybody could launch their careers as leadership scholars or educators, knowing they had some publications matter. So part of what you were doing as the leader and the teacher was really creating opportunities for them to launch their careers? That's right. Did they know that's what you were doing? Yes, we talked about it. It was transparent. Yeah, I mean, we did I even remember one class, my intro to student affairs class. I have lots of projects in that class and way too much work. I knew it was, you know, it's like one of the students called it student affairs. In the fire hose, it's coming at you. And I said, but every single thing I'm going to ask you to do, I can tell you what I think what it should contribute to your professional orientation, your personal development, it matter in your career. They were willing to trust and they said, okay, we'll do all the hard work and they could see the benefit of it. I even sometimes stepped outside myself and say, let's just talk about what we should have gotten out of that discussion. Like what did that matter, that we had that difference of opinion you always go to be making visible what might for some stay in visible. Do you think that qualities of somebody who is effective as a leader are inspiring trust and making things that might not necessarily seem evident at first visible. Those are all useful qualities. I mean, I wouldn't come up with ten things, but those things are all effect. Well, yeah, I'm just trying to figure out I understand what's in the jar here. Okay. And that award, I was so touched by that award. That's a system award for the Maryland system. So the University of Maryland system has ten or 12 institutions in the one that you got in 2011. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I noticed that you're mentioning. Yeah, That was very meaningful and that brings the mentoring into it too. Mentoring is really important to mentoring is another effective quality quality of an effective leader. You.
Understand Leadership
“Mostly I’m saying to people, know what gifts and talents you’re bringing to a group, and make sure that those are contributed, and then help others see theirs, and build a good community. And then people will see you doing that and value and appreciate your contribution.”
Description of the video:
So do you think that maybe that that's a sign of an effective leader? Or somebody who, who could spot the potential greatness and just encourage and open doors and make suggestions. I don't think all leaders have to be that way to be effective. But yes, that's a marvelous leader. As somebody I'd like to work for, they could work for me or I could work for them to be around a person who inspires you to your best self and who brings that out in you and who says, wow, these talents, you got to work on this a little bit, but these talents are phenomenal where you're almost unconditionally regarded well. When you're able and have the capacity to do these things, then there's no limit to the, what you can do. You're that person. Some of that is, some of that is Maleta about if you want to accomplish something, get some good people in the room together just to talk about it. And a synergy that comes out of six people in the room from across campus dealing with an issue. The outcomes are guaranteed to be the better. So do you think that maybe it's a mark of a good leader to figure out who six people would be, that would be a talent. I do encourage five or 12 or however many of the matter of fact in the speech I gave Thursday to the Aspen group, part of that was find the green, where are the green spots on your campus? Where is it just glowing and vibrating? That you could give it a good idea and they can implement, they can make it happen while another office, it would die on the vine. And they would gripe the whole time that they didn't have enough money. And we all know departments that are better or not on that. If you plant opportunities and good ideas in the right places, they can flourish with good support. And knowing where that would be and developing more of those, it is important. In 2011, you were awarded the Faculty award for teaching the Board of Regents University. What connections do you see between good teaching and effective leadership? I think the, well, I see a one to one correspondence. I think they're overlap, they're almost the same thing. I think the teaching role is inherently, by definition, also a leadership role you can create. You can do that in. Some of the most challenging teaching I've done is in co, creating a knowledge based together. That we then collaborated on where I wasn't the only one who knew anything but we were building. And some of that is two or three of my books have come out of class projects with grad students who are just brilliant, didn't know they could write that well. I said I can help you learn to write and I can help you shape your ideas. So we'll work on an outline first, but you really can do this. So can you name a couple of books that have come out of your class? Somebody's going to hear this and what? For example, we haven't talked about the social change model of leadership development yet, but when we developed that, there was no textbook that followed. People are adopting the model all over the place in higher education in 1996 and into the early 2000. But we needed a textbook for students. I had my class write the first textbook. Part of the class was Learning Leadership, discussing what should be in it, doing their Lit reviews for it. And I knew enough to guide them in that. But they were putting together chapters for this book. This was a graduates, my leadership educator class. They want they're motivated to do leadership. And I said in this class I'm going to be your teacher and co learner. But then we're going to shift over and I'll be your editor. The chapters won't all be done, We'll have them in a done draft form, but you have to hang in with me if you want to be published to get these into a published form. Of course every single person did because they got a publication out of it helps their career. Leadership for a better world is one another is the Handbook for student Leadership Development was done in another class. And the second edition, we had some people update their chapters and then added some new grad students to writing other chapters. The Facilitator's Guide for the Social Change model were students in the class. Yeah, we had several books out of those classes. I'm very proud to say not once that then I said I wrote, I've seen faculty that take students work and put it in their own book, like talk about unethical. That's terrible. But in this case, everybody could launch their careers as leadership scholars or educators, knowing they had some publications matter. So part of what you were doing as the leader and the teacher was really creating opportunities for them to launch their careers? That's right. Did they know that's what you were doing? Yes, we talked about it. It was transparent. Yeah, I mean, we did I even remember one class, my intro to student affairs class. I have lots of projects in that class and way too much work. I knew it was, you know, it's like one of the students called it student affairs. In the fire hose, it's coming at you. And I said, but every single thing I'm going to ask you to do, I can tell you what I think what it should contribute to your professional orientation, your personal development, it matter in your career. They were willing to trust and they said, okay, we'll do all the hard work and they could see the benefit of it. I even sometimes stepped outside myself and say, let's just talk about what we should have gotten out of that discussion. Like what did that matter, that we had that difference of opinion you always go to be making visible what might for some stay in visible. Do you think that qualities of somebody who is effective as a leader are inspiring trust and making things that might not necessarily seem evident at first visible. Those are all useful qualities. I mean, I wouldn't come up with ten things, but those things are all effect. Well, yeah, I'm just trying to figure out I understand what's in the jar here. Okay. And that award, I was so touched by that award. That's a system award for the Maryland system. So the University of Maryland system has ten or 12 institutions in the one that you got in 2011. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I noticed that you're mentioning. Yeah, That was very meaningful and that brings the mentoring into it too. Mentoring is really important to mentoring is another effective quality quality of an effective leader. You.
Understand Leadership
“Grounded theory is a research methodology and qualitative methods that the outcome then becomes the methods that one uses primarily interviewing. Around having purpose of sampling of some kind around what you then engage in, some series of interviews, and usually over a long duration, like, might be three, couple-hour each interviews, so you’re developing that over time.”
Description of the video:
So do you think that maybe that that's a sign of an effective leader? Or somebody who, who could spot the potential greatness and just encourage and open doors and make suggestions. I don't think all leaders have to be that way to be effective. But yes, that's a marvelous leader. As somebody I'd like to work for, they could work for me or I could work for them to be around a person who inspires you to your best self and who brings that out in you and who says, wow, these talents, you got to work on this a little bit, but these talents are phenomenal where you're almost unconditionally regarded well. When you're able and have the capacity to do these things, then there's no limit to the, what you can do. You're that person. Some of that is, some of that is Maleta about if you want to accomplish something, get some good people in the room together just to talk about it. And a synergy that comes out of six people in the room from across campus dealing with an issue. The outcomes are guaranteed to be the better. So do you think that maybe it's a mark of a good leader to figure out who six people would be, that would be a talent. I do encourage five or 12 or however many of the matter of fact in the speech I gave Thursday to the Aspen group, part of that was find the green, where are the green spots on your campus? Where is it just glowing and vibrating? That you could give it a good idea and they can implement, they can make it happen while another office, it would die on the vine. And they would gripe the whole time that they didn't have enough money. And we all know departments that are better or not on that. If you plant opportunities and good ideas in the right places, they can flourish with good support. And knowing where that would be and developing more of those, it is important. In 2011, you were awarded the Faculty award for teaching the Board of Regents University. What connections do you see between good teaching and effective leadership? I think the, well, I see a one to one correspondence. I think they're overlap, they're almost the same thing. I think the teaching role is inherently, by definition, also a leadership role you can create. You can do that in. Some of the most challenging teaching I've done is in co, creating a knowledge based together. That we then collaborated on where I wasn't the only one who knew anything but we were building. And some of that is two or three of my books have come out of class projects with grad students who are just brilliant, didn't know they could write that well. I said I can help you learn to write and I can help you shape your ideas. So we'll work on an outline first, but you really can do this. So can you name a couple of books that have come out of your class? Somebody's going to hear this and what? For example, we haven't talked about the social change model of leadership development yet, but when we developed that, there was no textbook that followed. People are adopting the model all over the place in higher education in 1996 and into the early 2000. But we needed a textbook for students. I had my class write the first textbook. Part of the class was Learning Leadership, discussing what should be in it, doing their Lit reviews for it. And I knew enough to guide them in that. But they were putting together chapters for this book. This was a graduates, my leadership educator class. They want they're motivated to do leadership. And I said in this class I'm going to be your teacher and co learner. But then we're going to shift over and I'll be your editor. The chapters won't all be done, We'll have them in a done draft form, but you have to hang in with me if you want to be published to get these into a published form. Of course every single person did because they got a publication out of it helps their career. Leadership for a better world is one another is the Handbook for student Leadership Development was done in another class. And the second edition, we had some people update their chapters and then added some new grad students to writing other chapters. The Facilitator's Guide for the Social Change model were students in the class. Yeah, we had several books out of those classes. I'm very proud to say not once that then I said I wrote, I've seen faculty that take students work and put it in their own book, like talk about unethical. That's terrible. But in this case, everybody could launch their careers as leadership scholars or educators, knowing they had some publications matter. So part of what you were doing as the leader and the teacher was really creating opportunities for them to launch their careers? That's right. Did they know that's what you were doing? Yes, we talked about it. It was transparent. Yeah, I mean, we did I even remember one class, my intro to student affairs class. I have lots of projects in that class and way too much work. I knew it was, you know, it's like one of the students called it student affairs. In the fire hose, it's coming at you. And I said, but every single thing I'm going to ask you to do, I can tell you what I think what it should contribute to your professional orientation, your personal development, it matter in your career. They were willing to trust and they said, okay, we'll do all the hard work and they could see the benefit of it. I even sometimes stepped outside myself and say, let's just talk about what we should have gotten out of that discussion. Like what did that matter, that we had that difference of opinion you always go to be making visible what might for some stay in visible. Do you think that qualities of somebody who is effective as a leader are inspiring trust and making things that might not necessarily seem evident at first visible. Those are all useful qualities. I mean, I wouldn't come up with ten things, but those things are all effect. Well, yeah, I'm just trying to figure out I understand what's in the jar here. Okay. And that award, I was so touched by that award. That's a system award for the Maryland system. So the University of Maryland system has ten or 12 institutions in the one that you got in 2011. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I noticed that you're mentioning. Yeah, That was very meaningful and that brings the mentoring into it too. Mentoring is really important to mentoring is another effective quality quality of an effective leader. You.
Inspire Followership
“The chance to work with people who have a shared vision that we know we can all do our part for. It’s not a competitive thing. I think every association I’m in is full of people mostly who really want everything to be better, and we can all do a part in that.”
Description of the video:
So do you think that maybe that that's a sign of an effective leader? Or somebody who, who could spot the potential greatness and just encourage and open doors and make suggestions. I don't think all leaders have to be that way to be effective. But yes, that's a marvelous leader. As somebody I'd like to work for, they could work for me or I could work for them to be around a person who inspires you to your best self and who brings that out in you and who says, wow, these talents, you got to work on this a little bit, but these talents are phenomenal where you're almost unconditionally regarded well. When you're able and have the capacity to do these things, then there's no limit to the, what you can do. You're that person. Some of that is, some of that is Maleta about if you want to accomplish something, get some good people in the room together just to talk about it. And a synergy that comes out of six people in the room from across campus dealing with an issue. The outcomes are guaranteed to be the better. So do you think that maybe it's a mark of a good leader to figure out who six people would be, that would be a talent. I do encourage five or 12 or however many of the matter of fact in the speech I gave Thursday to the Aspen group, part of that was find the green, where are the green spots on your campus? Where is it just glowing and vibrating? That you could give it a good idea and they can implement, they can make it happen while another office, it would die on the vine. And they would gripe the whole time that they didn't have enough money. And we all know departments that are better or not on that. If you plant opportunities and good ideas in the right places, they can flourish with good support. And knowing where that would be and developing more of those, it is important. In 2011, you were awarded the Faculty award for teaching the Board of Regents University. What connections do you see between good teaching and effective leadership? I think the, well, I see a one to one correspondence. I think they're overlap, they're almost the same thing. I think the teaching role is inherently, by definition, also a leadership role you can create. You can do that in. Some of the most challenging teaching I've done is in co, creating a knowledge based together. That we then collaborated on where I wasn't the only one who knew anything but we were building. And some of that is two or three of my books have come out of class projects with grad students who are just brilliant, didn't know they could write that well. I said I can help you learn to write and I can help you shape your ideas. So we'll work on an outline first, but you really can do this. So can you name a couple of books that have come out of your class? Somebody's going to hear this and what? For example, we haven't talked about the social change model of leadership development yet, but when we developed that, there was no textbook that followed. People are adopting the model all over the place in higher education in 1996 and into the early 2000. But we needed a textbook for students. I had my class write the first textbook. Part of the class was Learning Leadership, discussing what should be in it, doing their Lit reviews for it. And I knew enough to guide them in that. But they were putting together chapters for this book. This was a graduates, my leadership educator class. They want they're motivated to do leadership. And I said in this class I'm going to be your teacher and co learner. But then we're going to shift over and I'll be your editor. The chapters won't all be done, We'll have them in a done draft form, but you have to hang in with me if you want to be published to get these into a published form. Of course every single person did because they got a publication out of it helps their career. Leadership for a better world is one another is the Handbook for student Leadership Development was done in another class. And the second edition, we had some people update their chapters and then added some new grad students to writing other chapters. The Facilitator's Guide for the Social Change model were students in the class. Yeah, we had several books out of those classes. I'm very proud to say not once that then I said I wrote, I've seen faculty that take students work and put it in their own book, like talk about unethical. That's terrible. But in this case, everybody could launch their careers as leadership scholars or educators, knowing they had some publications matter. So part of what you were doing as the leader and the teacher was really creating opportunities for them to launch their careers? That's right. Did they know that's what you were doing? Yes, we talked about it. It was transparent. Yeah, I mean, we did I even remember one class, my intro to student affairs class. I have lots of projects in that class and way too much work. I knew it was, you know, it's like one of the students called it student affairs. In the fire hose, it's coming at you. And I said, but every single thing I'm going to ask you to do, I can tell you what I think what it should contribute to your professional orientation, your personal development, it matter in your career. They were willing to trust and they said, okay, we'll do all the hard work and they could see the benefit of it. I even sometimes stepped outside myself and say, let's just talk about what we should have gotten out of that discussion. Like what did that matter, that we had that difference of opinion you always go to be making visible what might for some stay in visible. Do you think that qualities of somebody who is effective as a leader are inspiring trust and making things that might not necessarily seem evident at first visible. Those are all useful qualities. I mean, I wouldn't come up with ten things, but those things are all effect. Well, yeah, I'm just trying to figure out I understand what's in the jar here. Okay. And that award, I was so touched by that award. That's a system award for the Maryland system. So the University of Maryland system has ten or 12 institutions in the one that you got in 2011. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I noticed that you're mentioning. Yeah, That was very meaningful and that brings the mentoring into it too. Mentoring is really important to mentoring is another effective quality quality of an effective leader. You.
Storytelling
“(School influenced me in many ways.) The excitement of learning about other cultures, and that there are other ways of seeing, and being, and experiencing even the same stimulus, whatever it might be, and how much there is to learn from that. Boy, I’ve been a learner all my life. The chance to learn anything new, and then weave and bring that into my opportunities to do something with it probably becomes a theme out of this.”
Description of the video:
So do you think that maybe that that's a sign of an effective leader? Or somebody who, who could spot the potential greatness and just encourage and open doors and make suggestions. I don't think all leaders have to be that way to be effective. But yes, that's a marvelous leader. As somebody I'd like to work for, they could work for me or I could work for them to be around a person who inspires you to your best self and who brings that out in you and who says, wow, these talents, you got to work on this a little bit, but these talents are phenomenal where you're almost unconditionally regarded well. When you're able and have the capacity to do these things, then there's no limit to the, what you can do. You're that person. Some of that is, some of that is Maleta about if you want to accomplish something, get some good people in the room together just to talk about it. And a synergy that comes out of six people in the room from across campus dealing with an issue. The outcomes are guaranteed to be the better. So do you think that maybe it's a mark of a good leader to figure out who six people would be, that would be a talent. I do encourage five or 12 or however many of the matter of fact in the speech I gave Thursday to the Aspen group, part of that was find the green, where are the green spots on your campus? Where is it just glowing and vibrating? That you could give it a good idea and they can implement, they can make it happen while another office, it would die on the vine. And they would gripe the whole time that they didn't have enough money. And we all know departments that are better or not on that. If you plant opportunities and good ideas in the right places, they can flourish with good support. And knowing where that would be and developing more of those, it is important. In 2011, you were awarded the Faculty award for teaching the Board of Regents University. What connections do you see between good teaching and effective leadership? I think the, well, I see a one to one correspondence. I think they're overlap, they're almost the same thing. I think the teaching role is inherently, by definition, also a leadership role you can create. You can do that in. Some of the most challenging teaching I've done is in co, creating a knowledge based together. That we then collaborated on where I wasn't the only one who knew anything but we were building. And some of that is two or three of my books have come out of class projects with grad students who are just brilliant, didn't know they could write that well. I said I can help you learn to write and I can help you shape your ideas. So we'll work on an outline first, but you really can do this. So can you name a couple of books that have come out of your class? Somebody's going to hear this and what? For example, we haven't talked about the social change model of leadership development yet, but when we developed that, there was no textbook that followed. People are adopting the model all over the place in higher education in 1996 and into the early 2000. But we needed a textbook for students. I had my class write the first textbook. Part of the class was Learning Leadership, discussing what should be in it, doing their Lit reviews for it. And I knew enough to guide them in that. But they were putting together chapters for this book. This was a graduates, my leadership educator class. They want they're motivated to do leadership. And I said in this class I'm going to be your teacher and co learner. But then we're going to shift over and I'll be your editor. The chapters won't all be done, We'll have them in a done draft form, but you have to hang in with me if you want to be published to get these into a published form. Of course every single person did because they got a publication out of it helps their career. Leadership for a better world is one another is the Handbook for student Leadership Development was done in another class. And the second edition, we had some people update their chapters and then added some new grad students to writing other chapters. The Facilitator's Guide for the Social Change model were students in the class. Yeah, we had several books out of those classes. I'm very proud to say not once that then I said I wrote, I've seen faculty that take students work and put it in their own book, like talk about unethical. That's terrible. But in this case, everybody could launch their careers as leadership scholars or educators, knowing they had some publications matter. So part of what you were doing as the leader and the teacher was really creating opportunities for them to launch their careers? That's right. Did they know that's what you were doing? Yes, we talked about it. It was transparent. Yeah, I mean, we did I even remember one class, my intro to student affairs class. I have lots of projects in that class and way too much work. I knew it was, you know, it's like one of the students called it student affairs. In the fire hose, it's coming at you. And I said, but every single thing I'm going to ask you to do, I can tell you what I think what it should contribute to your professional orientation, your personal development, it matter in your career. They were willing to trust and they said, okay, we'll do all the hard work and they could see the benefit of it. I even sometimes stepped outside myself and say, let's just talk about what we should have gotten out of that discussion. Like what did that matter, that we had that difference of opinion you always go to be making visible what might for some stay in visible. Do you think that qualities of somebody who is effective as a leader are inspiring trust and making things that might not necessarily seem evident at first visible. Those are all useful qualities. I mean, I wouldn't come up with ten things, but those things are all effect. Well, yeah, I'm just trying to figure out I understand what's in the jar here. Okay. And that award, I was so touched by that award. That's a system award for the Maryland system. So the University of Maryland system has ten or 12 institutions in the one that you got in 2011. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I noticed that you're mentioning. Yeah, That was very meaningful and that brings the mentoring into it too. Mentoring is really important to mentoring is another effective quality quality of an effective leader. You.
Storytelling
“Instead of dragging your feet into advanced algebra or something, it was... learning the, I’m a big-picture person generally, so I was learning the history of higher education and where it came from, and why we have the problems we have now, and which ones can we start to forecast we’re going to have as society also changes? ”
Description of the video:
So do you think that maybe that that's a sign of an effective leader? Or somebody who, who could spot the potential greatness and just encourage and open doors and make suggestions. I don't think all leaders have to be that way to be effective. But yes, that's a marvelous leader. As somebody I'd like to work for, they could work for me or I could work for them to be around a person who inspires you to your best self and who brings that out in you and who says, wow, these talents, you got to work on this a little bit, but these talents are phenomenal where you're almost unconditionally regarded well. When you're able and have the capacity to do these things, then there's no limit to the, what you can do. You're that person. Some of that is, some of that is Maleta about if you want to accomplish something, get some good people in the room together just to talk about it. And a synergy that comes out of six people in the room from across campus dealing with an issue. The outcomes are guaranteed to be the better. So do you think that maybe it's a mark of a good leader to figure out who six people would be, that would be a talent. I do encourage five or 12 or however many of the matter of fact in the speech I gave Thursday to the Aspen group, part of that was find the green, where are the green spots on your campus? Where is it just glowing and vibrating? That you could give it a good idea and they can implement, they can make it happen while another office, it would die on the vine. And they would gripe the whole time that they didn't have enough money. And we all know departments that are better or not on that. If you plant opportunities and good ideas in the right places, they can flourish with good support. And knowing where that would be and developing more of those, it is important. In 2011, you were awarded the Faculty award for teaching the Board of Regents University. What connections do you see between good teaching and effective leadership? I think the, well, I see a one to one correspondence. I think they're overlap, they're almost the same thing. I think the teaching role is inherently, by definition, also a leadership role you can create. You can do that in. Some of the most challenging teaching I've done is in co, creating a knowledge based together. That we then collaborated on where I wasn't the only one who knew anything but we were building. And some of that is two or three of my books have come out of class projects with grad students who are just brilliant, didn't know they could write that well. I said I can help you learn to write and I can help you shape your ideas. So we'll work on an outline first, but you really can do this. So can you name a couple of books that have come out of your class? Somebody's going to hear this and what? For example, we haven't talked about the social change model of leadership development yet, but when we developed that, there was no textbook that followed. People are adopting the model all over the place in higher education in 1996 and into the early 2000. But we needed a textbook for students. I had my class write the first textbook. Part of the class was Learning Leadership, discussing what should be in it, doing their Lit reviews for it. And I knew enough to guide them in that. But they were putting together chapters for this book. This was a graduates, my leadership educator class. They want they're motivated to do leadership. And I said in this class I'm going to be your teacher and co learner. But then we're going to shift over and I'll be your editor. The chapters won't all be done, We'll have them in a done draft form, but you have to hang in with me if you want to be published to get these into a published form. Of course every single person did because they got a publication out of it helps their career. Leadership for a better world is one another is the Handbook for student Leadership Development was done in another class. And the second edition, we had some people update their chapters and then added some new grad students to writing other chapters. The Facilitator's Guide for the Social Change model were students in the class. Yeah, we had several books out of those classes. I'm very proud to say not once that then I said I wrote, I've seen faculty that take students work and put it in their own book, like talk about unethical. That's terrible. But in this case, everybody could launch their careers as leadership scholars or educators, knowing they had some publications matter. So part of what you were doing as the leader and the teacher was really creating opportunities for them to launch their careers? That's right. Did they know that's what you were doing? Yes, we talked about it. It was transparent. Yeah, I mean, we did I even remember one class, my intro to student affairs class. I have lots of projects in that class and way too much work. I knew it was, you know, it's like one of the students called it student affairs. In the fire hose, it's coming at you. And I said, but every single thing I'm going to ask you to do, I can tell you what I think what it should contribute to your professional orientation, your personal development, it matter in your career. They were willing to trust and they said, okay, we'll do all the hard work and they could see the benefit of it. I even sometimes stepped outside myself and say, let's just talk about what we should have gotten out of that discussion. Like what did that matter, that we had that difference of opinion you always go to be making visible what might for some stay in visible. Do you think that qualities of somebody who is effective as a leader are inspiring trust and making things that might not necessarily seem evident at first visible. Those are all useful qualities. I mean, I wouldn't come up with ten things, but those things are all effect. Well, yeah, I'm just trying to figure out I understand what's in the jar here. Okay. And that award, I was so touched by that award. That's a system award for the Maryland system. So the University of Maryland system has ten or 12 institutions in the one that you got in 2011. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I noticed that you're mentioning. Yeah, That was very meaningful and that brings the mentoring into it too. Mentoring is really important to mentoring is another effective quality quality of an effective leader. You.
Storytelling
“At the Naval Academy... they needed a year-long executive leadership development program is what this was. And they would then use that knowledge to teach leadership courses there, and to lead these brigades or whatever the units were of midshipmen or cadets or whatever. So, they invited Johns Hopkins and Maryland, and I think Georgetown, to submit bids, you know, requests for proposal kind of process. And Maryland put together a bid to have this program be aligned. ”
Description of the video:
So do you think that maybe that that's a sign of an effective leader? Or somebody who, who could spot the potential greatness and just encourage and open doors and make suggestions. I don't think all leaders have to be that way to be effective. But yes, that's a marvelous leader. As somebody I'd like to work for, they could work for me or I could work for them to be around a person who inspires you to your best self and who brings that out in you and who says, wow, these talents, you got to work on this a little bit, but these talents are phenomenal where you're almost unconditionally regarded well. When you're able and have the capacity to do these things, then there's no limit to the, what you can do. You're that person. Some of that is, some of that is Maleta about if you want to accomplish something, get some good people in the room together just to talk about it. And a synergy that comes out of six people in the room from across campus dealing with an issue. The outcomes are guaranteed to be the better. So do you think that maybe it's a mark of a good leader to figure out who six people would be, that would be a talent. I do encourage five or 12 or however many of the matter of fact in the speech I gave Thursday to the Aspen group, part of that was find the green, where are the green spots on your campus? Where is it just glowing and vibrating? That you could give it a good idea and they can implement, they can make it happen while another office, it would die on the vine. And they would gripe the whole time that they didn't have enough money. And we all know departments that are better or not on that. If you plant opportunities and good ideas in the right places, they can flourish with good support. And knowing where that would be and developing more of those, it is important. In 2011, you were awarded the Faculty award for teaching the Board of Regents University. What connections do you see between good teaching and effective leadership? I think the, well, I see a one to one correspondence. I think they're overlap, they're almost the same thing. I think the teaching role is inherently, by definition, also a leadership role you can create. You can do that in. Some of the most challenging teaching I've done is in co, creating a knowledge based together. That we then collaborated on where I wasn't the only one who knew anything but we were building. And some of that is two or three of my books have come out of class projects with grad students who are just brilliant, didn't know they could write that well. I said I can help you learn to write and I can help you shape your ideas. So we'll work on an outline first, but you really can do this. So can you name a couple of books that have come out of your class? Somebody's going to hear this and what? For example, we haven't talked about the social change model of leadership development yet, but when we developed that, there was no textbook that followed. People are adopting the model all over the place in higher education in 1996 and into the early 2000. But we needed a textbook for students. I had my class write the first textbook. Part of the class was Learning Leadership, discussing what should be in it, doing their Lit reviews for it. And I knew enough to guide them in that. But they were putting together chapters for this book. This was a graduates, my leadership educator class. They want they're motivated to do leadership. And I said in this class I'm going to be your teacher and co learner. But then we're going to shift over and I'll be your editor. The chapters won't all be done, We'll have them in a done draft form, but you have to hang in with me if you want to be published to get these into a published form. Of course every single person did because they got a publication out of it helps their career. Leadership for a better world is one another is the Handbook for student Leadership Development was done in another class. And the second edition, we had some people update their chapters and then added some new grad students to writing other chapters. The Facilitator's Guide for the Social Change model were students in the class. Yeah, we had several books out of those classes. I'm very proud to say not once that then I said I wrote, I've seen faculty that take students work and put it in their own book, like talk about unethical. That's terrible. But in this case, everybody could launch their careers as leadership scholars or educators, knowing they had some publications matter. So part of what you were doing as the leader and the teacher was really creating opportunities for them to launch their careers? That's right. Did they know that's what you were doing? Yes, we talked about it. It was transparent. Yeah, I mean, we did I even remember one class, my intro to student affairs class. I have lots of projects in that class and way too much work. I knew it was, you know, it's like one of the students called it student affairs. In the fire hose, it's coming at you. And I said, but every single thing I'm going to ask you to do, I can tell you what I think what it should contribute to your professional orientation, your personal development, it matter in your career. They were willing to trust and they said, okay, we'll do all the hard work and they could see the benefit of it. I even sometimes stepped outside myself and say, let's just talk about what we should have gotten out of that discussion. Like what did that matter, that we had that difference of opinion you always go to be making visible what might for some stay in visible. Do you think that qualities of somebody who is effective as a leader are inspiring trust and making things that might not necessarily seem evident at first visible. Those are all useful qualities. I mean, I wouldn't come up with ten things, but those things are all effect. Well, yeah, I'm just trying to figure out I understand what's in the jar here. Okay. And that award, I was so touched by that award. That's a system award for the Maryland system. So the University of Maryland system has ten or 12 institutions in the one that you got in 2011. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I noticed that you're mentioning. Yeah, That was very meaningful and that brings the mentoring into it too. Mentoring is really important to mentoring is another effective quality quality of an effective leader. You.
Lead Authentically
“To be around a person that inspires you to be your best self and who brings that out in you, and who says, 'Wow, these talents, you’ve got to work on this a little bit, but these talents are phenomenal,' where you’re almost unconditionally regarded well, and when you’re able and have the capacity to do these things, then it’s just, there’s no limit to what you can do.”
Description of the video:
So do you think that maybe that that's a sign of an effective leader? Or somebody who, who could spot the potential greatness and just encourage and open doors and make suggestions. I don't think all leaders have to be that way to be effective. But yes, that's a marvelous leader. As somebody I'd like to work for, they could work for me or I could work for them to be around a person who inspires you to your best self and who brings that out in you and who says, wow, these talents, you got to work on this a little bit, but these talents are phenomenal where you're almost unconditionally regarded well. When you're able and have the capacity to do these things, then there's no limit to the, what you can do. You're that person. Some of that is, some of that is Maleta about if you want to accomplish something, get some good people in the room together just to talk about it. And a synergy that comes out of six people in the room from across campus dealing with an issue. The outcomes are guaranteed to be the better. So do you think that maybe it's a mark of a good leader to figure out who six people would be, that would be a talent. I do encourage five or 12 or however many of the matter of fact in the speech I gave Thursday to the Aspen group, part of that was find the green, where are the green spots on your campus? Where is it just glowing and vibrating? That you could give it a good idea and they can implement, they can make it happen while another office, it would die on the vine. And they would gripe the whole time that they didn't have enough money. And we all know departments that are better or not on that. If you plant opportunities and good ideas in the right places, they can flourish with good support. And knowing where that would be and developing more of those, it is important. In 2011, you were awarded the Faculty award for teaching the Board of Regents University. What connections do you see between good teaching and effective leadership? I think the, well, I see a one to one correspondence. I think they're overlap, they're almost the same thing. I think the teaching role is inherently, by definition, also a leadership role you can create. You can do that in. Some of the most challenging teaching I've done is in co, creating a knowledge based together. That we then collaborated on where I wasn't the only one who knew anything but we were building. And some of that is two or three of my books have come out of class projects with grad students who are just brilliant, didn't know they could write that well. I said I can help you learn to write and I can help you shape your ideas. So we'll work on an outline first, but you really can do this. So can you name a couple of books that have come out of your class? Somebody's going to hear this and what? For example, we haven't talked about the social change model of leadership development yet, but when we developed that, there was no textbook that followed. People are adopting the model all over the place in higher education in 1996 and into the early 2000. But we needed a textbook for students. I had my class write the first textbook. Part of the class was Learning Leadership, discussing what should be in it, doing their Lit reviews for it. And I knew enough to guide them in that. But they were putting together chapters for this book. This was a graduates, my leadership educator class. They want they're motivated to do leadership. And I said in this class I'm going to be your teacher and co learner. But then we're going to shift over and I'll be your editor. The chapters won't all be done, We'll have them in a done draft form, but you have to hang in with me if you want to be published to get these into a published form. Of course every single person did because they got a publication out of it helps their career. Leadership for a better world is one another is the Handbook for student Leadership Development was done in another class. And the second edition, we had some people update their chapters and then added some new grad students to writing other chapters. The Facilitator's Guide for the Social Change model were students in the class. Yeah, we had several books out of those classes. I'm very proud to say not once that then I said I wrote, I've seen faculty that take students work and put it in their own book, like talk about unethical. That's terrible. But in this case, everybody could launch their careers as leadership scholars or educators, knowing they had some publications matter. So part of what you were doing as the leader and the teacher was really creating opportunities for them to launch their careers? That's right. Did they know that's what you were doing? Yes, we talked about it. It was transparent. Yeah, I mean, we did I even remember one class, my intro to student affairs class. I have lots of projects in that class and way too much work. I knew it was, you know, it's like one of the students called it student affairs. In the fire hose, it's coming at you. And I said, but every single thing I'm going to ask you to do, I can tell you what I think what it should contribute to your professional orientation, your personal development, it matter in your career. They were willing to trust and they said, okay, we'll do all the hard work and they could see the benefit of it. I even sometimes stepped outside myself and say, let's just talk about what we should have gotten out of that discussion. Like what did that matter, that we had that difference of opinion you always go to be making visible what might for some stay in visible. Do you think that qualities of somebody who is effective as a leader are inspiring trust and making things that might not necessarily seem evident at first visible. Those are all useful qualities. I mean, I wouldn't come up with ten things, but those things are all effect. Well, yeah, I'm just trying to figure out I understand what's in the jar here. Okay. And that award, I was so touched by that award. That's a system award for the Maryland system. So the University of Maryland system has ten or 12 institutions in the one that you got in 2011. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I noticed that you're mentioning. Yeah, That was very meaningful and that brings the mentoring into it too. Mentoring is really important to mentoring is another effective quality quality of an effective leader. You.
About Susan Komives
Susan Komives’s career is really a tale of two related careers. Her first career was in university administration, serving as acting director and assistant director, area coordinator of residence halls at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in Knoxville, Tennessee, from 1969 to1973; associate dean of students at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, from 1973 to 1978; vice president and dean of student life at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, fro 1978 to 1985; and vice president for student development at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida, from 1985 to 1987.
In 1987, Komives began the second phase of her career after moving to the University of Maryland, College Park, as an assistant professor in the College Student Personnel Program, Department of Counseling and Personnel Services. Komives advanced through the academic ranks at the University of Maryland, having been promoted to associate professor in 1993 and full professor in 2007. She retired in 2012 and presently holds the title of professor emerita. Among her many duties at the University of Maryland, she served as faculty director of the Minor in Leadership Studies from 2007 to 2012, and Senior Scholar of the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership from 2002 to 2009.
Komives has had a profound impact on the general field of leadership studies through her scholarship. Between 1996 and 2023, she co-authored or co-edited 15 books. Most recently, she co-edited "How Academic Disciplines Approach Leadership Development (2020)," and "Research Agenda for Leadership Learning and Development through Higher Education," which is in press for publication 2023. Some of her books have been translated into Chinese and Japanese, which has reinforced the international dimension of her professional impact.
Alongside her impressive publication record, Komives has delivered over 90 national and international refereed conference presentations. She has consulted or presented in Canada, China, Qatar, South Korea, and Taiwan.
She has also had a profound impact on creating the next generation of leadership scholars. Komives chaired or served as a committee member for over 60 masters’ theses; chaired doctoral committees for 38 graduate students in college student personnel administration; and participated as a member of the doctoral committee for 70 doctoral dissertations.
Komives has received numerous recognitions for her body of service and her body of scholarly work, including the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American College Personnel Association (ACPA).
Born or Made?
“I don’t think you’re born with any of that kind of thing. I think there are characteristics that one can be born with. I mean, one of my dear faculty friends in my department at the University of Maryland studied childhood temperament and prenatal and natal, early childhood temperament development. And, certainly, you see that with your own kids, you see they have different personalities, even as they’re becoming little people. And I see those carry forward in both our son and daughter, even as the adults they are now. And I do believe that’s true. But not that you are born caring about issues external to you, I think all that is learned.”
Leaders Are Readers
“The same thing with ideas, I love ideas, and I love other people’s ideas. They call me this human Rolodex, my students do, and talk about my magic files. But I’ll read an article or, these days, find a link to something on the web that I read and remember who was studying that or who was interested in that, and zap that out to them. And often, that comes just at the right time, or they’re just so tickled that you remembered that was their interest.”
Books I Recommend
- The Handbook For Student Leadership Development
—by Susan R. Komives, John P. Dugan, Julie E. Owen, Craig Slack, Wendy Wagner and Associates
Non-Fiction, College Life - The Power of Servant Leadership
—by Robert Greenleaf
Leadership, Business