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    What Is Adaptive Leadership and Transformational Leadership?

    ByDestiny S. Harris

    In Module 5, we examined adaptive leadership as an expression of the complexity hypothesis and transformational leadership as an expression of the charisma hypothesis. Both theories explain organizational change, but the readings showed that leadership theories must also be evaluated for their assumptions about authority,…

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    When Representation Is Not Integration / Gendered Authority as an Adaptive Leadership Problem

    ByDestiny S. Harris

    OGL 530: Final Paper, Section 1: What is the leadership problem? Women’s underrepresentation in organizational leadership is commonly framed as a pipeline, confidence, or diversity problem. These explanations focus on the number of women available for leadership, women’s willingness to pursue authority, or organizational commitments…

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    In the Room but Powerless: Legitimacy and Gender in Swiped

    ByDestiny S. Harris

    OGL 568: Women and Leadership – Module 3 Film Analysis: SWIPED This film resonated deeply because of how real it was. I have seen it happen. There were so many relatable moments I have personally witnessed, not only in the workplace but in other business…

  • Philosophy

    Does Obsession Beat Simple Consistency?

    ByDestiny S. Harris

    You’ve heard the message. Pick one thing. Obsess over it. Grind yourself to the bone. Success waits at the end, and it will be worth what it costs you. Every platform runs a version of this script. The founder who slept under his desk. The…

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    Waiting for Better Leaders, While the Systems Burn

    ByDestiny S. Harris

    Week 4 of my journey through Critical Perspectives in Leadership The biggest takeaway I had from this module was realizing that leadership is not as objective as we often assume it is. Before this course, I tended to think of leadership theories as practical tools…

  • Investing

    Barbra Streisand Thought Trading Was Easy

    ByDestiny S. Harris

    A short history of 1999, the year everyone became a genius In 1999, Barbra Streisand explained her investment strategy to Fortune magazine. She was a day trader. She told the interviewer she couldn’t stand seeing red in her profit column, and since she’s a Taurus,…

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    Wall Street Taught You What IPO Means. Benjamin Graham’s Book Says It Means “It’s Probably Overpriced.”

    ByDestiny S. Harris

    Four lessons from The Intelligent Investor that just played out in real time I’m working through The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham’s classic with Jason Zweig’s modern commentary layered through it. This week’s reading covered what aggressive investors should never do, and one line I couldn’t…

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    Leadership Is Not a Checklist

    ByDestiny S. Harris

    Reflections from Critical Perspectives in Leadership, Module 3 The question of whether leaders are born or made turned out to be the starting point of Module 3, not the destination. The real work was questioning the assumptions underneath leadership theories themselves. Professor Kevin drove one…

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    Nobody Has to Like You. But Don’t Be Hated.

    ByDestiny S. Harris

    What a name-swap experiment, some magazine covers, and a work experience taught me about the likability trap This is week two of my series documenting what I’m learning in my organizational leadership graduate program, and how it keeps colliding with my actual life as a…

  • Investing

    My Daily Stock & ETF Watchlist: 27 Tickers And What Each Ticker Actually Is

    ByDestiny S. Harris

    I check this watchlist every day. Not to trade, I rarely touch anything. I check it the way you glance at a city skyline: to see what’s being built. One of the biggest lessons from two decades in the market is that you should know…

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    Tell Me the Painful Stuff: The Feedback Standard Most Leaders Won’t Survive

    ByDestiny S. Harris

    And on why radical candor gets all the attention. Radical receptivity is the other half nobody talks about. Tell me the painful stuff. Hit me straight in the gut. I ask these questions constantly. Not because I enjoy discomfort (or maybe I do), but because…

  • Philosophy

    Philosophy Discussion Topic: What Is the Purpose of Life?

    ByDestiny S. Harris

    Questions that can f*ck up or enlighten your day* Connect with me

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    Question Everything: Leadership, Character, and Your Own Blind Spots

    ByDestiny S. Harris

    Critical Perspectives in Leadership This course isn’t like most leadership courses. Instead of handing you models and frameworks to apply, it asks you to step back and interrogate where our ideas about leadership even come from: the philosophies, the assumptions, and the power structures underneath…

  • Philosophy

    Range: Why Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World

    ByDestiny S. Harris

    I’m Not an Expert at Anything, And Maybe…That’s Okay We were having a dinner in Europe when he said something I couldn’t shake. He wasn’t aiming for the top one percent of anything. His target was the top two to three percent, in multiple things….

  • Philosophy

    What Are You Sacrificing for Something You Don’t Even Love?

    ByDestiny S. Harris

    Thoughts That Came Up Horse Riding Pongo I rode a horse named Pongo the other day. I’ve always loved horses since childhood. They’re one of my favorite animals. And I just happen to love Dalmations, so obviously when I saw this horse, I’m like look…

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