Myers Briggs Made Useful: Academic Edition
The Edge for Scholars
Ask someone if they would take a personality test and they may first think of strange inkblots and probing questions about their childhood. Today’s personality tests move far beyond …
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Lessons in Leadership: Why You Should Read Colin Powell's It Worked For Me
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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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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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Small Wins for Sustained Success: The Progress Principle
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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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The Cool Professor
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When I started my lab I had a very distinct idea of the type of PI I wanted to be. I had experienced some different styles and observed many others. …
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Productivity Tip #7: Reclaim Your Meeting
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How often do you hear a colleague say, “I’m so excited to attend today’s group meeting,” or a student remark, “How is it possible that my group meetings …
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Go Pee. Academic Management Lessons I Learned from Audie Cornish.
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
This is Audie Cornish. Audie is my 1-year old Shiba Inu/Rottweiler mix who never has to pee. This is odd, because most larger mammals have a pretty pressing need …
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Don't Be a Power Hog: How Sharing Information, Time and Authority Makes You a Better Leader
Rebecca Helton, MA
Being generous can mean sharing your feedback, your knowledge, and your credit with people–but most importantly, it can mean the difference between a good leader and a great one. …
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Meetings Are a Skill You Can Master, and Steve Jobs Taught Me How
Rebecca Helton, MA
More brains don’t necessarily lead to better ideas. When it came to leading meetings, Jobs had no qualms about tossing the least necessary person out of the room. From …
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Why Aren't You Delegating?
Rebecca Helton, MA
You have way too much to do, you’re buried in work, and it seems there’s no way out from under it all. But there is: delegation. Yes, yes, …
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