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Focus on superior content, to be sure. But design it to be repackaged, repurposed, and evergreen – from the very beginning of your creative process.

Though there are many musicians and developers, who through long practice and dedicated effort, have made themselves into technically superior maestros, there are a rarer few who have a genius that no amount of practice or will can ever hope to attain.

How you convey bad news is a true test of your mettle as a leader, and your dependability in a crisis. Don’t shirk your responsibility when adversity inevitably arrives – step up, and show why they gave you the job in the first place.

By showing how value is made to student experience, to faculty experience, and to staff experience, you have a much better chance at being funded, supported, and ultimately, sustained over the long haul.

Great organizations enable, and encourage, great leaders to develop. And they do so with purpose. By design.

Hires who are better at managing up, rather than managing down, or vice versa - color everything within the organization; from corporate culture, to strategy development, to operations and customer service.

When you go all in, don’t fool yourself into thinking that being thoughtful, and considerate of what happens to those around you, is what’s holding you back, and keeping you from being wildly successful. For, what is success, if at the end of the day, we’ve thrown away all the people that have made our successes possible?

Completing these atomic elements of work is largely how our performance is judged. Anything that gets in the way of this is a distraction. For the most part, we nominally consider these tasks “our job”; but, they are actually only the tactical means by which we do our job, and should be part of a larger strategy, dictating why we do the things we do.

What will you do today, to create a sense of wonder?

If you don’t know where you’re going, then it really doesn’t matter what road you take.

Ultimately, we're not judged by the amount of time we spend at the office anyway; we're judged solely by what we deliver at the end of the process.

Real professional development happens the minute you hit the door, grab your coffee, and start the day.

Fortune favors the bold. And the bold stretch beyond what is comfortable, reasonable, and safe.

Anything that can’t be solved today, isn’t given the headspace to take away from today, what needs to be done today. Another way this might be better said: Don’t borrow trouble from Tomorrow.

The key is to be true to yourself, respect the brand and institutions you represent, and be accountable for your conversations in the marketplace of ideas.

It's the relationship that is valuable, not the sale.

The best time to learn to stretch your comfort zones, is when you can, and not when you need to.

Building a strong brand and reliable reach takes time. For most, this process takes years, and involves a mix of new and traditional media.

Being an entrepreneur in a non-entrepreneurial environment can be very challenging. It's not an impossible situation; but first, you must first understand your environment. The key to success, is meeting people where they are.

Confrontation doesn’t have to be a relationship ender. In fact, it can save more relationships than it destroys, when handled intentionally.