By Dr. Lisette Nieves Why are learning and working so often treated as mutually exclusive? As if to do one, or do it well, we must make a trade-off with the other? That formulation suggests that learning happens in a vacuum. In reality, we work, but we also want to enrich our organizations, knowledge, leadership, and […]

By Dr. Noel Anderson This past summer, an Afro-Cuban jazz musician taught a pilot class at NYU Steinhardt about leadership and culture. At one point he asked the students, “Whom do you think leads an orchestra?” Students were practically unanimous. “The conductor!” several of them called out. “No,” said the musician. “It’s the first violinist.” What […]

By Dr. Noel S. Anderson Leaders and managers in today’s professional spaces are finding that a radically changing landscape demands from them new and more dynamic competencies. For example, suppose you’re an organizational leader who needs to create and implement a marketing strategy to contend with tougher competition, yet marketing was not part of the original […]

By Dr. Lisette Nieves One of the required courses in the new NYU Steinhardt EdD program is Autoethnography. In creating and writing your ethnography, you focus on yourself. You answer fundamental questions about yourself. What message has your personal narrative conveyed to people – and you – up to now? You might wonder why we include – indeed, require – such a course. The […]