Between the premier issue in September and the second in December, subscriber count more than doubled—from around 1,100 to more than 2,500.<\/p>\n
Maidique added that the newsletter highlights the work of the center\u2019s twelve research projects; The Leadership Lectures,<\/em> featuring distinguished academicians and practitioners; and their four executive leadership development programs. The center\u2019s own work is supplemented by initiatives, research, articles and news items from numerous other sources that provide significant insights on building leadership.<\/p>\n \u201cIt also was important for the newsletter to profile leaders with a demonstrated understanding of the impact of strong personal and professional values,\u201d said Garth D. Headley (MS \u201907), industrial psychologist and associate director, marketing and corporate relations. \u201cExecutives in the ‘Featured Leader’ column embrace the responsibility for the continuous development of their people, while conducting business in a very ethical and responsible way.\u201d<\/p>\n Leading<\/em> offers links to videos or podcasts by FIU faculty and includes features such as polling questions. Subscriptions are free, easily obtained through the center\u2019s website.<\/p>\n Electronic media offers benefits. <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cCertainly, electronic communication is more eco-friendly than printing thousands of newsletters,\u201d said Przemyslaw \u201cShemeck\u201d Filec (BBA \u201911), the center\u2019s new media manager. \u201cWe also chose electronic communication so Leading<\/em> can present a wide range of resources in an engaging and interactive way in real time.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe pace of change in electronic media continuously provides opportunities to update our format and add features,\u201d Headley said. \u201cWe will always aim to incorporate what works best for communicating our leadership research, programs and initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John F. Kennedy said \u201cLeadership and learning are indispensable to each other.\u201d That reasoning explains the success of Leading, the electronic quarterly newsletter launched in 2011 by the Center for Leadership in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU). Between the premier issue in September and the second in December, subscriber count […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[375,382,1927],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29770,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15166\/revisions\/29770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Subscription](\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/newsletter.jpg\" "\\"Center")
\u201cWe launched Leading<\/em> to provide our community easy access to the center\u2019s research findings on what makes for effective decisions, ethical leadership and leadership practices that provide organizations with long-term, sustainable growth,\u201d said Modesto Maidique, president emeritus of FIU and the center\u2019s executive director, who early on saw the potential for this forum.<\/p>\n