Urgency Bias and Its Intersection with Gender in Leadership

Dan Pontefract shared an anecdote in Forbes this week (2018 Sep 6) about a female leader's response to a call from her supervisor that took her away during an important meeting. Pontefract regretted his 'failure' to correct the woman by educating her regarding urgency bias. The story raised several issues . . .

Leadership, EquityBernadette HowlettSeptember 8, 2018leadership, urgency bias, genderComment

Disprivaleged

Personal word of the day today: "Disprivaleged." Two eye-opening reads address the issue of privilege. The first provides . . .

Human Resources, Leadership, EquityBernadette HowlettSeptember 6, 2018Equity, leadership, privalegeComment

Hope and Realism about Higher Education's Future

With a veritable chorus of voices declaring higher education to be on the ropes as an industry - including my own (recently here, here, and certainly here) - there lurks an untested assumption that generally falls into the 'new must be better' perspective . . .

Credentialing Competence

It is, by no means, a brand new notion, but the idea of credentialing competence (often referred to as competency based education, CBE) is rapidly advancing on K-12 and higher education, as both disruption and opportunity. It seems likely a significant portion of the education market, especially for undergraduate education as well as . . .

Leadership, Higher EducationBernadette HowlettAugust 26, 2018Higher education, leadership, digital badgesComment

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