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Lessons from Kony 2012.

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Bridging the Distance between Criticism and Activism

As we all watched the groundswell and subsequent backlash of the Kony 2012 campaign, I could not help but get wrapped up in the momentum.  As one who promotes student service and social action, I was overwhelmed by the attention garnered by a movement fueled in large portion by youth.

I have had more than moderate exposure to the work of Invisible Children and have seen the organization’s marked ability to empower young people.  As I watched the video, I perceived a bit of what critics would begin to highlight in coming days.  I want to briefly share my opinion, not because it matters, but because it helps contextualize my comments.

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Gardening With a Sense of Urgency: Innovative Leadership in a Revolutionary Age.

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I just finished Joshua Cooper Ramo’s alarmingly insightful bestseller, The Age of the Unthinkable.  Within his text, Ramo artfully unravels a large portion of our ideology and methodology in the arenas of foreign affairs and global economics.  As an educator and advocate, I am often prone to disdainfully approach this sort of heady discourse as platitudinous—luxurious dialogue afforded those intellectuals who have not muddied their boots in the developing world—great ideas with little impact other than to generate consulting opportunities for their exponents.  Despite my cynical starting point, the book proved to be a sincerely sobering work and without question, a watershed text for those seeking to exact sustainable impact in a radically shifting world.

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Servant Leadership.

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Hey all!

I tried to spend some time thinking about who I wanted to “be” as a blogger since my first post.  You know the kinda stuff, “what story do I want to tell?” or “what kind of advice should I try to provide?”

I couldn’t really come up with a theme that seemed compelling and so I tried to think about the “theme” of my own leadership instead.  What is it that I think I am supposed to do as a leader?  What is my purpose?  My mission?  My vision for my own leadership?

As I am sure you can imagine, this is no small question to ponder.  And I didn’t find any easy answers.

What I did find, I hope, was the “theme” of my leadership:

Service.

I lead to serve others.

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NAWMBA’s 12th Annual Women in Leadership Conference.

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The Rice University Chapter of the National Association of Women MBAs (NAWMBA) is pleased to announce that the 12th Annual Women in Leadership Conference will be held on:

Friday February 10, 2012. 8am – 3pm at McNair Hall on Rice University, Jones Graduate School of Business

Registration is only $40 and includes breakfast, lunch, and a champagne reception. Proceeds from the conference go towards scholarships for Rice MBA students. Attire is business casual. The first 100 people to register will be entered into a drawing for an Apple iPad.

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New Club, New Year, New Job…?

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Hello again everyone! In my last blog post, I mentioned that I’m currently serving as the President of the Rice University Education Leadership Club. I’d like to take this opportunity to formally introduce the club and share some news regarding our exciting plans for the year.

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