Meg Myers Morgan5 minUnder the Influence: The Powers and Limitations of Convincing OthersHave you ever strategized about how to convince someone of something, say, how to proceed with a certain project at work? Or, worried tha...
Meg Myers Morgan4 minFreedom: The Time Between Action and ReactionI 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 th...
Meg Myers Morgan5 minLife-Changing Moments: Only Recognizable in HindsightYou 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 Morgan4 minHow to Authentically Show Up When Only Half of You Is SeenIf 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 Morgan8 minBeating Down the Door: Working While Quarantining with KidsWe had been doing well. Daily walks outside, eating healthy, even spending time each evening saying what we were grateful for. We had not...
Meg Myers Morgan4 minMagnifying What is Already There: Your Leadership Under the Microscope of CrisisBefore 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 Morgan4 minCuriosity or Judgment: Flipping the Switch Changes Our Ability to Think, Lead and UnderstandThe 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 Morgan4 minMentors and Managers: Three Tactics to Help You Help Those Who Rely on YouOne 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 w...
Meg Myers Morgan6 minSeek 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 co...
Meg Myers Morgan5 minWhy Your Success is Failing YouSuccess has the weird ability to both fill you up and hollow you out. I still vividly remember the day I successfully defended my dissert...
Meg Myers Morgan5 minStop ShrinkingSometimes, when I scroll through Instagram or watch TV, I think that all people want women to do is shrink. Advertisements show us that w...
Meg Myers Morgan5 minWhat The Great British Bake Off Teaches Us About SuccessMy family has become enamored of The Great British Baking Show on Netflix, a scrumptious version of the original BBC show, and we look fo...
Meg Myers Morgan6 minThe Low Bar of AuthorityA 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 Morgan4 minSleight of Hand: How Women Do it AllThere 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 w...
Meg Myers Morgan5 minThe Dark Side of Women's Networking EventsYesterday 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 Morgan5 minWhat'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 almi...
Meg Myers Morgan4 minThere's No Such Thing as One ShotThree minutes into my extremely well rehearsed talk, I lost my train of thought. My mind went blank. There I was, on stage, without a sin...
Meg Myers Morgan6 min5 Things I've Learned about People from Teaching ThemEvery profession provides a unique point of view into the human experience. My mother, who spent her career as a business owner in the fo...
Meg Myers Morgan6 minReligious PracticeOur house backs up to a catholic elementary school. We are not catholic, and our children do not attend the school, but we collectively s...