I have always enjoyed thinking out loud, and I realized that you can’t think out loud so easily as dean because your thoughts are taken much more seriously than you intended them to be. It was one of my first shocks as dean…that people really listened to what you had to say. Mark Roche, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame
Courtesy of PhilanTopic:
The most important things a leader can bring to a changing organization are passion, conviction, and confidence in others. Too often executives announce a plan, launch a task force, and then simply hope that people find the answers—instead of offering a dream, stretching their horizons, and encouraging people to do the same. That is why we say, ‘Leaders go first.’
I caught the Hesburgh Library elevator this afternoon, and just as the doors opened Father Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C. joined us. For ten floors, I got to listen to him chat to others in the elevator about various subjects, including an undergraduate who is majoring in PLS – Program of Liberal Studies.
Father Ted’s comment:
“That’s the best program we have. You can’t study the writings of fifty of the most intelligent people in history and not learn something good.”