RWL Newsletter #119
Greetings from the University of New Hampshire! Hard to believe commencement is in less than a month away! The group of students for whom I started this newsletter will be graduating, which kind of makes me feel old(er). After a career in the Army, being in one place for four years just seems wrong. It feels like I should be getting orders any minute. If you’re former military, you know what I mean.
The daffodils have opened as of this morning, which is always an exciting moment in the spring - it feels like winter is decisively behind us. Of course, we had a snow storm after that last year, and it did some damage to the flowers, but we’re hopeful! It will be nice to have green again.
Here’s this week’s links:
Read
What: Inc., How Can You Tell Someone Has True Leadership Potential? Look for 5 Rare Signs
Why: A friend, S.A., who is a senior military leader, posted this article to her LinkedIn. She added, “I agree with this. For Field Grades in S3/XO (COO-equivalent) jobs I would add: 1) the ability to assist your commander (CEO-equivalent) in shaping your organization toward future goals by and through an understanding the operational and strategic OE and 2) the ability to operate and make decisions based on your commander's intent." Quick read - worth considering.
Watch
What: TED, TED's secret to great public speaking (7 min)
https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_anderson_teds_secret_to_great_public_speaking?language=en#t-464454
Why: This is Chris Anderson, Head of TED, talking about what makes a public talk effective. Given the success of TED, this should be self-recommending. His points resonate. I watched this through twice, and will certainly watch it again. His four points are:
Limit yourself to one idea
Give listeners a reason to care - appeal to their curiosity
Build your idea from pieces that listeners already understand
Make the idea worth sharing - i.e., it is inspiring outside of your narrow area of interest
Listen
What: Health Leader Forge, Semra Aytur, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Health Management & Policy (58 min for the abridged version)
https://healthleaderforge.blogspot.com/2019/04/semra-aytur-phd-mph-associate-professor.html
Why: I am very pleased to share my interview with my colleague, Dr. Semra Aytur. Semra is an accomplished Public Health researcher and teacher here at the University of New Hampshire. Her work focuses on socio-ecological resilience. She has published 40 academic papers, books, and book chapters on topics related to public health. In this interview we talk about her journey from discovering the field of public health as an undergraduate, her pursuit of technical skills to support her passion for public health, and examples of her interdisciplinary research blending together fields such as epidemiology, engineering, and urban planning to improve community health and health equity. It was fun for me to get into depth with Semra about her background, and I hope you enjoy the conversation, too.
Thanks for reading and see you next week! If you come across any interesting stories, won't you send them my way? I'd love to hear what you think of these suggestions, and I'd love to get suggestions from you. Feel free to drop me a line by e-mail, or you can tweet to me at @mbonica .
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Have a great weekend and do amazing things!
Mark
Mark J. Bonica, Ph.D., MBA, MS
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Management and Policy
University of New Hampshire
(603) 862-0598
mark.bonica@unh.edu
Health Leader Forge Podcast: http://healthleaderforge.org
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor." - Henry David Thoreau