Lucky Duck Award Winners and Another Chance to Win!
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Congratulations to our Lucky Ducks! They must hoard four-leaf clovers and rabbits’ feet. Without passing go, they collect $50. Alvinj and Kate Clouse are our lucky random winners out of everyone …
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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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Productivity Tip #6: I'm Not Telling You to Lie
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You don’t have to say you are away to use your “out of office” feature. You just have to be bold. My favorite flavor of bold is the Texan …
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Shut Up and Write
Rebecca Helton, MA
As we head into a new semester, you may be making writing goals for the new year. The following article has some great suggestions for how to motivate and keep …
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To Succeed, Forget Self-Esteem
Rebecca Helton, MA
If you look under the Self-Help heading on Amazon, you’ll find roughly 5,000 books listed under the subhead Self-Esteem. The vast majority of these books aim to not only tell …
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Spring Conference Season Essentials
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The weather is finally warming up, and we’re now into spring conference season. Go prepared with this grab-bag of tips and tricks from across the web.
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Save Your Sanity the Stanford Way
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
“A lot of times you feel that work doesn’t care about you. ‘I’m just doing the grind, and what for? I’m missing out on my family and …
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Now Playing: Edge Video Vault
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Welcome to the Edge for Scholars Video Vault. We're stockpiling high value career development resources and sharing the wealth. Visit Vault and add your suggestions
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Working Hard Does NOT Mean Success (at Grants or Anything Else)
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There’s this persistent myth that I need to tear down once and for all. Maybe it won’t all happen in this one blog post, but by God I’…
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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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