I am not proud to admit it, but I recently had a meltdown over some rice. On the surface, it is as ridiculous as it sounds: I’d bought a bag…
Category: <span>management techniques</span>
There is a passage of Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal that has stayed with me since I read the book more than two years ago. The book is about aging and…
Not too long ago, I was a bystander in a Twitter discussion about academic work hours. I was a bystander because I have a fairly firm rule that I do…
We’ve all been there. We made a decision. We thought it was a good one, but subsequent events proved us wrong, and now we have a mess on our hands.…
I like to say that we should manage the work, and mentor the people. But I have to admit, my knowledge of how to manage the work is much stronger…
I have been managing distributed teams for as long as I have been a manager. This has probably had a profound effect on how I manage overall. It is probably also…
I am a process geek. I love working out how to make a process more efficient. However, sometimes working on your process is the wrong thing to do. Sometimes, you…
Last week, I wrote about the joys of real breaks from work. Today, I want to write a bit about how to make that happen, even if you’re the person in…
From time to time, I come across someone who argues that they don’t need to know how to manage projects. They have hired smart people, and those people know what…
I got an interesting email from a reader who is setting up a new lab and wonders if I have any advice about how to set it up to be as…