Bigger, Faster Leadership: Lessons from the builders of the Panama Canal by Samuel R. Chand is an interesting treatise on leadership using the lessons learned by the builders of the Panama Canal as a concrete (pun intended!) metaphor for massive … Continue reading
Fall is in the air and it’s time for another roundup of cool tools from around the Internet. Bookmarking Tools If you are not satisfied with the browser bookmarking capabilities you currently use, Educational Technology and Mobile Learning is coming … Continue reading
Feeling Swallowed by Meetings? You aren’t alone! Sometimes Academia seems particularly prone to this malady, so I shot down a rabbit hole on Google to see what insights I might be able to find for us all. I found this … Continue reading
Lauren Sapala is a writing coach who began to realize that a number of her clients, like herself, had Myers-Brigg Temperment Types of INFJ or INFP. In this motivational book, she outlines what she discovered about the writing process that … Continue reading
Dr. Robert Talbert of Grand Valley State University shares this post about Fixed schedule productivity in his blog. The idea of “laser-like focus” for one’s working hours and compartmentalizing work from private life is not new, but the practical example … Continue reading
Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen is a classic book in the productivity world. We’ve talked about the concepts of this method several times on this blog, and focused one of our Productivity Year sessions (session 4 to be … Continue reading