Stopping Theft at Work; Harvard Business Review, 5/11/11

Nilofer Merchant, Harvard Business Review; Stopping Theft at Work:

"Being good is not enough. You gotta tell others. If this is hard for you to accept, remember what Muhammad Ali said: "It's not bragging if you can back it up." When someone else takes credit for our work, the reason it stings is because they've stolen a bit of our power. And we let them."

Preparing for Your Interview; Chronicle of Higher Education, 1/13/11

Rob Jenkins, Chronicle of Higher Education; Preparing for Your Interview:

"When I say "craft" your narrative, I don't mean make it up. I trust that, if you're applying to community colleges, you really are committed to teaching. If you're faking it, the committee members will almost certainly sniff that out. And even if they don't, even if you sell your act and manage to get yourself hired, you're going to be pretty miserable teaching five courses a semester.

What I'm suggesting, assuming you really do consider yourself a good teacher, is that you keep that role foremost in your mind. Think about the experiences you've had in the classroom that led you to enjoy teaching and convinced you it was something you wanted to do. Then weave those stories into your interview answers.

For instance, you may be asked about your experience with diverse student populations. Don't answer by spouting numbers: "My last campus was 43 percent African-American and 17 percent Asian." Instead, tell a brief story about the time a student's cultural differences enlightened your class discussion, or the time you went out of your way to help a student who was struggling with the language."

Leadership Begins at Home; Harvard Business Review, 11/23/10

Tony Schwartz, Harvard Business Review; Leadership Begins at Home:

"One of the greatest gifts you can give your kids is help in foregoing immediate gratification, by setting boundaries for them and by modeling the behavior yourself.

That's also one of the greatest gifts you can give to those you lead or manage."

http://blogs.hbr.org/schwartz/2010/11/one-of-the-greatest-gifts.html

A Practical Plan for When You Feel Overwhelmed; Harvard Business Review, 9/23/10

Peter Bregman, Harvard Business Review; A Practical Plan for When You Feel Overwhelmed:

"The more numerous our options, the more difficult it becomes to choose a single one, and so we end up choosing none at all. That's what happens when we have too many things to do. We become overwhelmed and don't do any of them.

Over the past few days, I've tried a lot of different things to escape this conundrum, and here's what worked for me..."

http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2010/09/a-practical-plan-for-when-you-1.html

The Dirty Truth About Digital Fasts; Harvard Business Review, 9/2/10

Alexandra Samuel, Harvard Business Review; The Dirty Truth About Digital Fasts:

"Last year it was the staycation. This year it's the digital fast. "How I unplugged" — from Twitter, from a Blackberry, from the Internet, or at the behest of the New York Times — is the new "what I did on my summer vacation."

As people trade stories about how they survived, or even thrived, offline, I'm troubled by the underlying narrative, that our ability to unplug is necessary to prove that we're not Internet addicts. We're supposed to demonstrate our grasp of human relationships by our ability to relate face-to-face, as well as online. We're supposed to show that we can be present by being absent from the web."

http://blogs.hbr.org/samuel/2010/09/the-dirty-truth-about-digital.html