I recently read Elizabeth Gilbert’s book Big Magic and a few interesting things happened to me. First, many passages resonated with me and I kept coming back to the book. Next, I f[...]

After sharing how to revolutionize meetings, I should have prefaced with this book review for Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip Heath & Dan Heath. My are[...]

Before the school year is fully underway, I wanted to give a review on the book Death by Meeting by Patrick Lencioni. The book’s name and cover picture likely sum up people’s[...]

Summer is a great time to catch up on some non-required reading. And if my fellow supervisors are like me, it is also a great time to assess your supervisory skills, style and to l[...]

“People fail to get along because the fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not c[...]

Introduction As higher education institutions across the nation seek to expand their campuses, particularly with multi-million dollar recreation centers and elaborately designed re[...]

The student affairs profession has wonderful graduate programs that help you learn and apply theories, build budgets, project or program plan, and work on departmental or program a[...]

Check out Lisa and Kristen’s #SAreads chat on Storify!   Driving the Line Almost every day, I drive down Troost Avenue in Kansas City – a street that has obviously[...]

#SAReads Chat Review 26 tweets 3 contributors 1 Transcript Top Contributors Kristen Abell Tiff Dyer Anne ScheidelerSweet “Truly human leadership protects an organization from the i[...]

When I picked up Silver Linings Playbook, I thought, well the movie has Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro – the book must be good to produce that cast! &nb[...]