Build a Great Team: Help Your Staff Help You
Rebecca Helton, MA
Your staff is here to help you succeed. Use their talents well.
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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 …
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Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
Benjamin Tingey
Are you a genius or a genius maker?
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Don't Miss the Deal Breakers: Nine Questions for New Lab Staff Hires
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Hooray! You’ve set up a lab. You have a scale and everything. Now the applicants are pounding down your door looking forward to helping you get the Nobel Prize. …
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Spiderman as a Scholar: Fighting the Crime of Harassment in Academia
David Sacks, PhD
Advice on how to do your part.
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Strong Performance
Katherine Hartmann, MD, PhD
Coach or scientist, the basics are basic.
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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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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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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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Toward Institutional Progress: Faculty Book Groups, Anti-Racist Texts
Eric Sentell, PhD
Faculty book groups reading anti-racist texts are a simple, actionable idea for driving individual and institutional change.
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