Author: Greg Stratman

Retrospective Innovation?

Strong leadership often incorporates notions of creativity and innovation, seeking progress through change. However, change does not always correlate to progress. Much change in the

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Effective Leadership Can Be Defined

Leadership can be a challenging concept to describe. After all, the plethora of places, organizations, efforts, businesses, events, and initiatives that call for strong leadership

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When Progress Is Merely Change for Change’s Sake

The fast pace of our society impels people, organizations, businesses, educational institutions and politicians to seek and adopt changes in the name of progress, but

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Not Going to College? OK, But . . . .

The idea of “college for all” is a grand notion that makes a good soundbite but is neither practical nor desirable. Not every person desires

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Getting the Most Out of College

These days, most students attend college to receive training for a job – engineer, accountant, lawyer, teacher, journalist, social worker, scientist, IT, law enforcement, etc.

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Write Better Immediately

Writing is distinctly a multistage process. It cannot be completed both quickly and effectively; one or the other of those can be achieved, but not

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Embrace Your “Hard”

We tend to believe that, after the relative ease and freedom of childhood and adolescence, life will get increasingly complicated by career, marriage, home ownership,

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The “Soft” Skills”: Underemphasized & Undervalued (until you get a job!)

A growing number of employers are decrying the lack of the soft skills (aka transferable skills or professional skills) in today’s college graduates, a reality

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Is Education Disappearing?: The De-evolution of Education

Several years ago, a document started circulating the internet (and perhaps its circulation preceded the internet) that showed an 8th grade graduation exam from the

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