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July 2017

July 29, 2017

This Is How Women Work

Working women, working mothers, full-time mothers all know. This is what it's like to be...

February 2017

February 19, 2017

Professional Integrity in Uncertain Times, Part II

It will not do to remove an incompetent or dangerous political figure by slapping a...

February 03, 2017

Professional Integrity in Uncertain Times

Adler's statement is conservative in the best sense: that which is genuinely good is worth...

February 01, 2017

Conscientiousness Matters: He Who is Faithful in a Very Little Thing

It's easy to develop habits of inattention, of laxity, of apathy, that snowball into outright...

October 2016

October 31, 2016

FWO: Whatsoever You Do, Don’t Apologize

My dear women-friends, I have some unasked-for advice to give you. And I'm not sorry...

October 10, 2016

An Emotional Savings Account

When you're in a job where your physical safety is threatened or your competence and...

October 07, 2016

Locker Room Talk at the Workplace

If it is only the power of the most powerful man in the room that...

August 2016

August 23, 2016

Game-Changing Openers: “You deserve to have your name pronounced correctly.”

HR folks, section leaders, orientation directors, managers, bosses, employers of all sorts can communicate expectations,...

August 20, 2016

Al Roker Is The Bomb

Brock Turner's father, whose legitimate parental desire to keep his son out of prison led...

June 2016

June 07, 2016

Fathers Are Allowed to Say Stupid Things on Their Sons’ Behalf.

What Brock Turner did was evil as well as criminal, but I can't say I'd...

April 2016

April 19, 2016

Quadrennial Professionalism Reminder

I wrote this on my family blog way back when there were still young people...

March 2016

March 09, 2016

Top 25 List . . . of . . . nevermind.

So . . . this was a random list . . . of . ....

January 2016

January 21, 2016

Due Diligence

This is an article written by someone who loves his work. Seriously. Academic Urban Legends...

January 18, 2016

Cell Phone Etiquette Is Actually a Thing

Go forth and practice courtesy one to another. Please.

January 06, 2016

Working While Wealthy?

People are, by and large, able to think well enough about their employment situation that...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

How Introverts Work: Quietly, Even in Large Groups

Looking at people's name tags is not self-evident proof of status consciousness. It may just...

December 08, 2015

An A+ Post . . .

My friend Anna Gissing wrote a lovely meditation over at Emerging Scholars Blog on the...

December 02, 2015

Teaching that Makes a Difference

Taylor Mali's now-famous slam poetry homage to teaching is a delight. It's a delight because...

November 2015

November 12, 2015

The Way Women Work: Playing Second Fiddle (Even When They’re The Concertmaster)

I had plans to publish a few joint projects with my husband, who is in...

November 05, 2015

The Way Women Work: Making Ahead

My freezer is almost empty. I filled it up this summer, with several heroic days...

October 2015

October 31, 2015

I Guess We’ll Be Eating In Tonight

So, what you're saying, then, Anthony Bourdain, is that no matter which restaurant we choose,...

October 25, 2015

Grave Misreporting

I'm all for a little frank self-interest driving owners and managers to do what also...

September 2015

September 09, 2015

This is “It All Falling Apart”? Really?

It is unreasonable to expect to work with near-constant affirmation from superiors, near-constant agreement from...

September 07, 2015

The Work of Our Hands

If this is heavenly--first, to know that every child born is one that will live...

August 2015

August 23, 2015

Teaching Unprofessionalism

The stories were told by people who were, during the incidents themselves, medical students. Though...

August 17, 2015

On Lattices and Ladders

If success is necessarily hierarchical and competitive (as even the word "excellence," which I use...

August 12, 2015

A Work-Family Meal

The featured chef reported the most important thing he learned from one of his fellow...

July 2015

July 02, 2015

Mistakes were made . . . yeah, by us.

It was an aside, but I mentioned in my last post the importance of using...

June 2015

June 28, 2015

Worth Reading Last Week: 6/28

If you are in a position of leadership in your organization, please consider privileging "what...

June 23, 2015

Seven Ways to Combat the Student Debt Crisis

After my last post, it seemed worth offering some strategies of resistance that don't rely...