Under the Influence: The Powers and Limitations of Convincing Others
Have you ever strategized about how to convince someone of something, say, how to proceed with a certain project at work? Or, worried...
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Meg Myers Morgan
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Freedom: The Time Between Action and Reaction
I used to suffer from a very bad habit that I had convinced myself was one of my strongest traits: I was quick to respond. Not just in...
Meg Myers Morgan
- 5 min
Life-Changing Moments: Only Recognizable in Hindsight
You don't typically know a life-changing moment until you're years past it, often when someone asks an innocuous question about something...
Meg Myers Morgan
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How to Authentically Show Up When Only Half of You Is Seen
If the mullet haircut was business in the front and party in the back, the virtual meeting is business up above, authenticity down below....
Meg Myers Morgan
- 8 min
Beating Down the Door: Working While Quarantining with Kids
We had been doing well. Daily walks outside, eating healthy, even spending time each evening saying what we were grateful for. We had...
Meg Myers Morgan
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Magnifying What is Already There: Your Leadership Under the Microscope of Crisis
Before my husband and I had children--and were therefore less stressed and more well-rested than we could ever appreciate at the time--I...
Meg Myers Morgan
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Curiosity or Judgment: Flipping the Switch Changes Our Ability to Think, Lead and Understand
The mind can only gather, compute, and produce thoughts in one of two ways--through curiosity or through judgment. The mind can't process...
Meg Myers Morgan
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Mentors and Managers: Three Tactics to Help You Help Those Who Rely on You
One of the most fundamental parts of my job is showing up and listening to people. I've had hundreds of one-on-one meetings in my office...
Meg Myers Morgan
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Seek to Be Replaceable (Why You Must and 3 Ways to Do It)
For the first few years of my job as a program director of a graduate program on a branch campus of a flagship university, the biggest...
Meg Myers Morgan
- 5 min
Why Your Success is Failing You
Success has the weird ability to both fill you up and hollow you out. I still vividly remember the day I successfully defended my...
Meg Myers Morgan
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Stop Shrinking
Sometimes, when I scroll through Instagram or watch TV, I think that all people want women to do is shrink. Advertisements show us that...
Meg Myers Morgan
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What The Great British Bake Off Teaches Us About Success
My family has become enamored of The Great British Baking Show on Netflix, a scrumptious version of the original BBC show, and we look...
Meg Myers Morgan
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The Low Bar of Authority
A few years ago, I had a very high-ranking elected official speak to one of my graduate-level courses on public policy. She gave a great...
Meg Myers Morgan
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Sleight of Hand: How Women Do it All
There was a television show in the early 2000s called Magic's Biggest Secrets Revealed. I was so pumped for this show to debut because I...
Meg Myers Morgan
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The Dark Side of Women's Networking Events
Yesterday I received a call from a woman who wanted me to speak at her company's upcoming Women's Networking Event. She said the company...
Meg Myers Morgan
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What's Not to Like? (Part One)
When I first took my husband home to meet my parents, I was nervous. Sure, I liked this guy--loved him even--but I still wanted that...
Meg Myers Morgan
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There's No Such Thing as One Shot
Three minutes into my extremely well rehearsed talk, I lost my train of thought. My mind went blank. There I was, on stage, without a...
Meg Myers Morgan
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5 Things I've Learned about People from Teaching Them
Every profession provides a unique point of view into the human experience. My mother, who spent her career as a business owner in the...
Meg Myers Morgan
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Religious Practice
Our house backs up to a catholic elementary school. We are not catholic, and our children do not attend the school, but we collectively...
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