RuReady Articles
The RuReady Article Library turns the Adult Readiness Framework into practical, accessible ideas you can use in everyday life. Articles are organized around three interconnected domains: Personal, Professional, and Leadership. Each article is designed to be concise, practical, and useful, giving you something to think about and, when possible, something you can apply immediately.
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Articles about leading yourself, leading others, and improving the organizations you’re part of.
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Articles about creating value, building capability, navigating your career, and developing professionally.
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Articles about taking ownership of your life and developing the knowledge, skills, and attributes needed to live well.
Coach's Corner
Coach’s Corner offers practical insights from Rekha Jillella’s coaching conversations to help you navigate everyday challenges, grow personally and professionally, and lead with greater confidence.
Time and Task Management Workflow
In preparation for this article series, I decided to run a little experiment to see where all my time was going. I...
The Last Chapter Series – Wills and Trusts (2 of 10)
Most of us are familiar with Wills or Trusts in the context of estate planning, but few of us...
Design for Interdependence: Fix Cross-Team Collaboration
It's not hard to lead a team toward a clear goal. It's hard to lead multiple teams toward a shared...
The Last Chapter Series – Wills and Trusts (2 of 10)
Most of us are familiar with Wills or Trusts in the context of estate planning, but few of us consider aging as an element of the estate planning process. Mark Twain once said, “Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.” The older I get,...
Design for Interdependence: Fix Cross-Team Collaboration
It's not hard to lead a team toward a clear goal. It's hard to lead multiple teams toward a shared goal...or what I call Cross-Team Collaboration Everyone's doing their job. But suddenly your success depends on someone else's timeline, process, and definition of...
How Systems Thinking turns Automation into Strategy
Automation often looks simple from the outside. Step one: find a repetitive task. Automate it. Save time. Improve efficiency. But anyone who has led a major automation effort knows it rarely works quite that neatly. I saw this firsthand while working with robotic...