Last semester I experimented with giving students the responsibility of grading themselves. I think it went well enough that I plan to do it again next time, though I plan to refine the process based on what I learned. Motivation The idea resulted from a talk by Barry Salzberg, the global CEO at Deloitte, to Columbia Business School’s alumni club. He talked about a challenge that since became part of[…] Keep reading →

The leadership I practice, teach, and coach begins with the other person’s interests. Students and clients hear me say “Put their interests first while you lead them” a lot (usually followed by “the rest of the time know and act on your interests, but put theirs first when you’re leading them.”). Working with their interests means working with what they care about which means working with their values. So I[…] Keep reading →

How can we see these chairs in the waiting room I was just in as anything other than a statement of our times? The middle chair is about double the width of the chairs to its side. At first I had a hard time believing what I saw. Then I resigned to accept that’s the world I live in. Without double-width chairs, many people couldn’t sit. What we call food[…] Keep reading →