We’re all unreliable narrators – at least to someone. Be objective, transparent, and authentic in your interactions with others, to minimize your bias.

Unreliable Narrators

We can boldly declare obsolete technologies to be Dead. Deceased. Gone to meet their maker. Singing with the Choir Eternal.

Pining for the Fjords.

Or - we can pragmatically realize that we must meet our teachers and staff where they are in their technological mastery, and focus instead on the goals of our teaching and instruction, rather than the uniformity and currency of our technology platforms.

He's Pining for the Fjords

It is incumbent upon you as a leader, manager, and educator to keep strategy front and center – at the water cooler, in the board room, and in the classroom.

When to Be Strategic

Meet people where they are. Show them a pathway to success.

Comfortably Numb

Your true "mission statement" is to serve those who depend upon your services and abilities. Your people should be able to ascertain what that mission statement is, by simply looking at how you go about your work, serving others.

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Life - and career - is too short to put up with poor service, neglect, and victimization.

It's Not You. It's Us.

Feel free to disrupt and innovate - when you've proven that you've kept the main thing, the main thing.

First Principles

Don’t let misplaced obligation rob you of the drive and focus your employer demands and deserves.

You Didn’t Respond… Are You Interested?

When you wholly commit  - to a course of action, to a strategy, to a purpose - your decision making power, authority, and focus amplifies, by definition. That's because all the mental energy and head space that you were formerly devoting to indecision, may now be brought to bear in actually doing.

Commit Me

AV Technology editorial director Margot Douaihy hosts “Tech Connects Us,” a podcast exploring the ways technology can enhance collaboration, creative problem-solving, and civic responsibility. 

In this installment, Margot talks with Hendrix College's CIO David Hinson about the challenges and benefits of blended-learning and videoconferencing in higher education.

Originally appeared here: http://www.avnetwork.com/systems-contractor-news/podcast-archive/111425

AVTechnology Magazine - Margot Douaihy interviews David J. Hinson

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