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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 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 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...

December 2015

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...

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,...

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...

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 17, 2015

A “Vocation” Is Not an Excuse for Theft

Student loan debt is a problem. It's becoming a public health crisis (economically speaking). It's...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

How Much Openness Can We Afford?

I hate writing the academic integrity paragraph on my syllabus. I have to name all...

April 2015

April 18, 2015

(Un)Professionalism and the “Vet of the Year”

The professions--I use the word in its technical sense--carry with them an expectation of virtue,...

April 10, 2015

5 Ways to Breathe Life into Workplace Conflicts: Outrunning the Law is a Good Thing

Taking a deep breath and asking yourself, "How can I go beyond the bare minimum...

March 2015

March 28, 2015

No Gender Discrimination Here. Nope.

It's easy enough for a business to content itself with discovering plausible justifications for its...

March 21, 2015

Retailing Ethics

At some point, white people in leadership roles will have to learn to be a...