The Problem with Departmental Revenue/Cost (non)Analysis

Originally published June 2017. All across the country struggling colleges (and universities) are hiring one of several academic consulting firms to help them get a

Bad Methods Yield Non-Actionable Answers

Originally published June 2017 Having drunk the KoolAid of rubrics and assessment, many the untrained academic administrator epitomizes that old saw about a knowing just

Managing the Wrong Problem

Originally published June 2017 We have a revenue problem, not a cost problem. Imagine an educational institution that finds itself running a budget deficit –

Is it real? Can we win? Is it worth doing?

Originally posted 16 June 2017 I saw the best minds of my institution distracted by madness, meeting endlessly in vain, poring themselves over balance sheets

In Comey Firing Trump Gets Notification Wrong Again

Any number of news outlets communicated a sense of outrage over the fact that James Comey apparently learned he’d been fired by looking up at

Hack Your Organizational Problems

“Hackathons” are cool. But who knows what they really are and how they work?  This makes them ideal things for clueless managers to do poorly.