College of Business Dean Lynne Richardson’s weekly column in The Free Lance-Star discusses the importance of carving out time in your schedule to think. Read TIME TO THINK. LET’S THINK back to our childhoods for a moment. 20If you’re a person of a certain age, say over 40, you grew up in what many might […]
College of Business Dean Lynne Richardson’s weekly column in The Free Lance-Star discusses how to make teamwork more effective. Read BE A TEAM PLAYER. IN business schools, many professors put students in teams. The teams do a variety of things. Sometimes they do classroom activities. At the other extreme, they create a project that counts […]
College of Business Dean Lynne Richardson’s weekly column in The Free Lance-Star discusses making changes to job descriptions. Read RETHINKING JOBS AS TIMES CHANGE. HAVE YOU looked around your organization to see who’s doing what? As technological changes have impacted so much in the last couple of decades, are the people in your organization “fully […]
College of Business Dean Lynne Richardson’s weekly column in The Free Lance-Star discusses whether to make big announcements when changes still need to be made. Read THE BOLD STATEMENT. I HAVE spent a lifetime in higher education, first as a student, then as a professor and administrator. We are not known in higher education for […]
College of Business Dean Lynne Richardson’s weekly column in The Free Lance-Star discusses bad behavior in the workplace. Read BELIEVE THEM. IT HAS taken me six decades, but I have accepted something recently that perhaps you also might need to accept. When people show you who they are by their actions and words, believe them. […]