- Academic Reads: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
With uplifting chapters entitled "Emotions are Overrated", "Victimhood Chic" and "Don't Try" Mark Manson's advice on life and career is anything but subtle. Think of it like taking advice from former Jet Blue employee Steven Slater who ended his 28 year flight attendant career by...
- Email: Do It Well
In my quest to model good reading behavior, I often check out books to peruse while my kids read. Recently I picked up Send: Why People Email so Badly and How to Do It Better. I admit I was wondering what a book could teach me about e-mail, but it turned out to be very useful. F...
- The Power of Pause: How to be More Effective in a Demanding, 24/7 World
Count to ten! Take a deep breath! But what next? These time-tested techniques are often not enough when conflict threatens to jeopardize a project, although Nance Guilmartin does use this advice as a first step.
Guilmartin suggests that we get “curious, not furious," leading...
- Regrouping to Gain Resilience & Resolve
Scenario*:
Early career faculty member with perfect academic pedigree and several strong first-authored publications.
Currently at mid-point of second year on tenure track.
Rushed resubmission of career development grant.
Did not incorporate advice and or use availa...
- Simple Steps to Validating and Managing Others: A Bedtime Story
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. As a K-level scholar, I know my next step is managing a large research team, and I need some additional management skills to round out my sk...
- Small Wins for Sustained Success: The Progress Principle
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 success...
- Why You Should Read The Creative Habit
So you’re not a dancer. You’re not a musician. You’re not an artist or a poet. Why read this book? Because you have ideas: ideas for new population studies, new treatments for disease, and new ways to look at data. And this book will give you the habits that beget more good ...
- Recapture Your Free Time with How to Write a Lot
Do you find your grant-writing intruding on time you’d rather spend with your family? Did revisions to that last journal article ruin your vacation? Then this book might be just the thing you need.
Author Paul Silvia wanted to call How to Write a Lot “How to Write More Prod...
- Why you should read The Opposable Mind
For fifteen years prior to this book's publication, author Roger Martin studied successful leaders, interviewing more than fifty of them for up to eight hours at a time, trying to find a pattern to their success. The pattern he discovered was what he calls "integrative thinking....
- Don’t Delay (Or Do). Read Wait: The Art and Science of Delay
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 can make a new relationship stronger? What about the fact that taking some time before apologizing causes the wronged pe...
