On Twitter, I’ve recently alluded to my new job. I’ve started working at Babson College helping to facilitate a community-wide re-examination of Babson’s capabilities, strategy, and future direction. I will then be helping to implement the community’s recommendations.
This job is incredibly exciting. The new Babson president, Len Schlesinger, has been a colleague, friend, mentor, and originally professor of mine since 1989. He’s one of the most visionary people I have ever met, combined with a firm grasp of data and execution. In short, he dreams big dreams and has what it takes to make them happen.
He came to Babson to build on its strength in entrepreneurship (we’ve been #1 in entrepreneurship for the last 15 years), to take Babson to its next level. What that next level is will be defined by the community in our next four months of conversation.
This should be incredibly exciting! I will continue to produce the Get-it-Done Guy podcast and, of course, will be finishing the Get-it-Done Guy book as well. I hope to continue posting to this blog, though until the book is done and I have more time on my plate, my entries will likely be relatively fewer and farther between.
To hear Len discuss the tension between business pressures and the ethical dimensions of business leadership, listen to (1 hour) Leadership and Ethics Series: “Organizational Leadership in Search of the Triple Bottom Line: The ‘Victoria’s Dirty Secret’ Campaign.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Jennifer Flaten // Sep 10, 2008 at 10:35 am
It sounds like the perfect job for you!
2 Rob Kendrick // Sep 10, 2008 at 11:19 am
Wow, congratulations, Stever! It’s always good to be working with or for people you care about and respect.
Just remember not to overload yourself, k? And get plenty of rest.
3 Kathryn Hall // Sep 10, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Congratulations, Stever! I know you will learn so much there and will then pass along to us outsiders. YAY! Win/Win/Win
4 Deb Edwards // Sep 11, 2008 at 12:58 am
Congratulations Stever! What a great opportunity for you, and I am sooooo jealous of the energy and excitement that this new endeavor will have for you. Keep us updated.
5 Shana Montesol Johnson // Sep 11, 2008 at 7:44 am
Congratulations on the new job — what a terrific fit! Would love to hear your reflections (sometime when you have time) on the transition from sole practitioner to organization guy who has a boss, regular hours, etc. (while still maintaining some aspects of the sole practitioner business, like your podcast). What are the challenges, and how would you advise people to navigate them?
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