I'm Not Your Mom and Other News About Females in STEM
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
You really need to stop using 'like my mom' as a compliment to your female mentors.
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Bad Meetings and How to Make Them Better
Aimee Edgeworth
Bad meetings can happen to good people. As someone who has hosted meetings about planning meetings, here are a few things to consider.
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Shields Up: Being A Science Leader in Tough Times
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
It's a new week in unbelievably challenging times. Labs need to work and papers need to be published. Finding importance in pipetting and grant writing is a struggle.
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Radical Candor: Can It Work for Academics?
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
With many parallels to the struggles of busy life in academia, Scott's Radical Candor is an excellent read. You can easily finish this book in an evening but it's one you'll want to pass around to friends after.
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Summer Reading: What's Popular in the Edge Library
The Edge for Scholars
Here's what's been flying off the shelves of our "analog library" of career development books.
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Seeing the Dark Side of #Worksmarter
Motivated Mentor
We cannot trap our staff and faculty in over commitment on a burnout treadmill and imply blame that they are not smart enough to do their work properly. Work smarter is starting to leave a bitter taste.
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How To Be an Academic Leader and Maintain Time For Yourself
Susan Dyer
Seventh grade English class and your assignment is to write a one pager about what you want to be when you grow up. Hmmm…sports writer, teacher, astronaut, video game creator, nurse, cowboy/girl, police person, senior faculty member! Wait, what? Fast forward thirty years, and you find yourself sitting in a bigger office than most, with […]
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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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Go go go...read 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 daily progress among yourself, your coworkers, and your subordinates, leading to “virtuous loops” of small successes (that add up to big victories) and happier, more creative and […]
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Watch the Front Lines
David Calkins, PhD
Delegation is important; but make sure to remain engaged.
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