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How to shift your mindset as a campus administrator, from dreading adversity to accepting its inevitability

Many campus leaders are caught off guard when adversity strikes, responding with frustration or even disbelief. But the truth is, challenges are not interruptions to leadership, they are leadership. Shifting your mindset about that can save you from unnecessary disappointment and even energize you for the work ahead. As Justin Trudeau, the former Canadian prime minister, put it: “The pace of change has never been this fast, and it will never be this slow again.”

For campus administrators at all levels of leadership, disruption, change, and uncertainty are the new normal, and to solve the challenges of the future, you’re going to need to hone your leadership “superpowers.” Six traits, in particular, separate the leaders who merely react to a crisis from those who use it as an opportunity to shape the future.

Continue reading: “6 ‘Superpowers’ Every Leader Needs,” by Angel B. Pérez

Send questions or comments to Denise Magner, an editor at The Chronicle, at denise.magner@chronicle.com.

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• In The Wall Street Journal, a report on a new “everybody’s replaceable” tone in the workplace from today’s bosses.
• Advice in the Work Friend of The New York Times about what to do when your supervisor imposes on you.
• Results of a new survey of graduate students on where they are willing to live, and not, after earning a doctoral degree.