New Semester Starting
Today is September 1, 2009, the start of a new semester teaching at Zicklin School of Business. Even when I wasn’t teaching, I always felt that September was a new start, a new beginning, a time to put into action what I might not have gotten done during the summer—or even the spring.
My last blog “Congratulations Future Leaders” was posted on May 27 and was still visible a couple of weeks ago. I know because I was a co-presenter of a program on “Social Media: What’s the Return on Investment?” and used my blog to explain what a blog was to those in the audience who didn’t know.
It also pointed out how not to use a blog. That is, to be successful, you must write blog entries two or three times a week. What happened to my last blog entry I don’t know. Maybe I can find it. Maybe not. It was a piece directed to the seniors at Zicklin, part of Baruch College, and included my good wishes to them for a good career as the leaders we need in the future to guide us.
It’s now been three months without writing a blog and my readers need an explanation. I’m calling my time away my summer vacation. Although I drafted blog entries, nothing seemed to come together in a final form. Very unlike me, a prolific writer. My lack of coherence was due to shifts in my personal life which kept me from the focus and the momentum that I had built up with my blog.
Today is the first day of class. It is the first day of my renewed commitment to writing a blog and working to be the best leader that I can be.