Simple Steps to Validating and Managing Others: A Bedtime Story
Julia Phillippi, PhD
You may be scoffing at finding time to read, but let’s face it, if you want to reach the next level you have to reach for it purposefully.
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Networking for People Who Hate Networking: A Field Guide for Introverts, the Overwhelmed, and the Underconnected
The Edge for Scholars
If you’re like your correspondent, the very word “networking” sends a trickle of terror down your spine. Even the thought of mingling at a conference fills you with dread. …
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Small Wins for Sustained Success: The Progress Principle
The Edge for Scholars
Don’t let your lab’s fortunes sink like the Titanic, to borrow the opening simile from The Progress Principle. Read this book instead and find out how to facilitate …
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Excellent Read for the Optimistic Academic: Give and Take by Adam Grant
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Adam Grant’s New York Times Best Seller Give and Take has been heralded by Daniel Pink as “A rare work that will shatter your assumptions about how the world …
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Why You Should Read Drive
Rebecca Helton, MA
While it isn’t a quick fix, this is the book for anyone wanting to learn—or remind themselves—what really drives us all, so that with even a few …
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Don't Delay (Or Do). Read Wait: The Art and Science of Delay
Rebecca Helton, MA
Did you know that speakers who frequently pause for short periods are more persuasive than those who don’t? Or that not lingering on a date that’s going well …
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Lessons in Leadership: Why You Should Read Colin Powell's It Worked For Me
The Edge for Scholars
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell offers leadership advice through storytelling in this collection of anecdotes and true tales. Each short chapter derives a lesson from an incident encountered in …
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Do More Great Work
The Edge for Scholars
Ever wish you had a map to show you how to avoid unnecessary busywork and focus on the work you know you were meant to do? In this jam-packed little …
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Hidden Curriculum: Reading Recommendations
Monica Aswani, DrPH
Hidden Curriculum-related book, podcast, and other media recommendations.
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Writing Science in Plain English: Clarity Rules
Rebecca Helton, MA
If you only read one book on science writing, make it this one.
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