Director of Strategic Organizational Initiatives at San Francisco State University, College of Business
Me in Three
My ambition is to invert the paradigm and bring frame breaking change to higher education operations. Simply because it's been done this way for so long doesn't mean it should be done this way tomorrow.
I'm passionate about practicing what we research. In other words, I don't think it's enough to study change or innovation. We have a unique opportunity as thought leaders and managers to apply what we learn and experiment with our own operations
My academic role models start with Karl Weick and flow from there to those working (Jane Dutton, Kim Cameron, etc...) in the new branch of organizational studies called Positive Organizational Science because it bridges the gaps between disciplines.
Stories, Hacks, & Barriers
Groundbreaking ideas and practices from Aaron Anderson
Expecting a group of highly educated, culturally fixed Ph.Ds who are excellent researchers to run their own operation may have been fine 80 years ago when educational operations were run, staffed, and
Porter's Five Forces Model has been used in MBA level and other business courses on college campuses since it was invented by Michael Porter just over 30 years ago.
With the existing technology, it's very easy to establish a wikilocation to bridge the gap between what we do internally in theoperational side of university and colleges (as well as any othereducatio
As I'm currently working on my annual employee evaluations(including my self-eval which I write and my boss puts his signatureon), I'm struck by how much time I sink into them and how useless theyreal
One of the challenges of faculty work is that, while there arelarge number of great faculty members out there, access to these facultymembers is limited to physical presence in the classroom; until no
This is a very raw idea, but in my view, one of the things that is clearly holding academia back from a clear aggressive approach to developing new knowlege and advancing innovaion is this notion of l
My dream for the College of Business here at SF State University, is to develop a truly new format of graduate business education where we create businesses as a fundamental aspect of a cohort-based s