by Matt Mattson How can you change your organization’s image on your campus, or in your community? How can you fight the stereotypes that plague your group and keep high quality people from joining? What can you do about the campus administrators, student newspaper editors, admissions counselors, and professors that talk badly about your organization? Read More
by Josh Orendi My wife and I are due on February 11th with our first child — a daughter that is showing early signs of becoming a soccer player. This week, we took our first pregnancy preparation class. Our instructor, Tamara, shared a piece of advice that is so relevant to leadership that I had Read More
by Josh Orendi There’s a deep sense of altruism associated with giving blood, bone marrow, a kidney, and even putting that little red heart on our driver’s license. It makes many of us feel good. A friend of mine told me “I like knowing that my legacy can live on through the life of another.” Read More
[Editor's Note: Thanks to Bradley for contributing this piece. In the fraternity world, Bradley's one of "the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes." Enjoy.] by Bradley Charlesworth, Coordinator of New Media & Public Relations, Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity (Guest Blogger) In the 8th grade I designed Read More
by Matt Mattson This week is National Hazing Prevention Week. That got me thinking. What’s really the best way to prevent hazing? Here are my best ideas. 1. Recruit better, kinder, more thoughtful, more compassionate, higher performing people who have respect for the basic dignity of others. 2. …that’s all I got. We’ve written about Read More
[Editor's Note: Woody Woodcock is one of the most creative, unique-thinking, Socially Excellent, people we've ever met. That always comes through in his off-the-wall, sometimes wacky writing style. This is the second of two posts that go together written recently by Woody] by Woody Woodcock One afternoon recently I met a really neat guy who Read More
by Josh Orendi Two articles caught my attention this month. This one and this one. Universities are literally cancelling fraternity recruitment (USC) and disallowing freshmen the right to join fraternities (Princeton and nearly UNC). On respected campuses with high profile fraternity communities, long traditions of alcohol consumption by minors — especially during recruitment — are Read More
by Matt Mattson I had the absolute pleasure recently of talking to the Executive Director of Alpha Omicron Pi, Troylyn (Troy) LeForge. We were chatting about organizational growth and some of the amazing work that AOPi has done recently in that department. Amongst a bucketful of other nuggets of wisdom, Troy said something to me Read More
by Matt Mattson You are powerful. You may not even realize it. You have the power to change someone’s life forever. Remember when you first joined your organization — that organization that has made such an impact on you? Remember how there was that one person who invited you in and made you comfortable? Think Read More
by Matt Mattson How to change the world. Step 1: Finish one of these statements… “The world would be better if…” “Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could change…” “You know what really pisses me off? Let me tell you…” That’s your purpose. Step 2: Start shaking hands and gathering people together around your purpose. Read More