2020 has been one heck of a year. Before the protests there was a pandemic. In fact, there still is a pandemic. But if you go back to February 2020 in your mind’s eye, when COVID-19 cases were starting to exponentially increase outside of China, education was...
Last Friday I talked about the importance of how you do things in regards to decision making. So here is my approach to writing a book. I’m currently working on a project which will turn into a book on the mastermind. This is a very important project; I’d...
Have you ever wondered how a leader arrived at a decision? “What the hell was she thinking?” You might have said. Your people say that about you, if you don’t communicate effectively. You don’t need to justify every decision you make, but it...
Evolution isn’t just for biologists. It is a useful mental model for Ruckus Makers to make sense of life and leadership. The idea is quite simple: adapt or die. “Organisms in nature have survived and thrived for billions of years because they have one powerful...
Martha Dunagin Saunders is the sixth President of the University of West Florida. In her 30-plus years in higher education, she has served in academic and leadership roles at universities in Florida, Georgia, Wisconsin and Mississippi. Her area of academic expertise...