Karl Miller Lugo
Husband, father, friend, @UT_COE fundraiser, connector, 1x Ironman, social media champion, Boricua, Kentuckian, Texan, and believer that we can always be and do better.
Email me: karlmillerlugo@gmail.com
Husband, father, friend, @UT_COE fundraiser, connector, 1x Ironman, social media champion, Boricua, Kentuckian, Texan, and believer that we can always be and do better.
Email me: karlmillerlugo@gmail.com
President and General Dwight D. Eisenhower said, "The urgent is seldom important and the important is seldom urgent." In one of my favorite books, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey, Covey writes about "Putting First Things First." He provides a quadrant where you can place activities based on Urgency and Importance. Covey affirms what Pres. Eisenhower said by showing that most highly important activities are rarely urgent. We have become a society of the "urgent." "Urgency" people are reactionary.We react to the emails, phone calls, and meetings. "Importance" people are proactive. They prioritize planning, "visioning", and goal setting. They understand sacrifice for long-term gain. We don't have the commitment, discipline, and willingness to be "importance" people. It takes too much time. It takes sacrifice. It takes delayed gratification. "Urgency" people don't realize dreams. They don't save for the future. They never have enough time for personal and professional development. They let life happen "to" them. "Importance" people reach their goals and set new ones. They make time for what's important (life, family, health). They create the life they want. As a nation, we need more people choosing the important over the urgent. It means making the time and making the hard choices, but it means greater success and self actualization. Do you prioritize the important over the urgent? What techniques do you use?
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What lessons can we take from this? If we've always known this, why don't we do it? How do you define "soft" or "hard" management?
What are you reading? Hard copy, e-reader, or book on tape/iPod?
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" How Power Affects Us"
Paradox of power. The very traits that helped leaders accumulate control in the first place all but disappear once they rise to power. Instead of being polite, honest and outgoing, they become impulsive, reckless and rude.
This would be of great value to highered fundraising, marketing, communications, and public relations. Enabling/encouraging faculty to share their work across many mediums and engaging/involving/informing a broader audience would have direct impact on greater private investment.
Now, how do we get the Academy on board?
