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This invaluable source book offers guidance, support and advice for those contemplating or involved in academic careers. The contributions provide rich, personal, sometimes poignant and often humorous accounts of shared and unique experiences of those in the world of academia.
Herding Cats Part Deux: The Hygiene Factor
Herding Cats Part Deux: The Hygiene Factor
If you're ever feeling too full of yourself, I've found the cure. Be a department chair. I'll bet there is an opportunity available in your neighborhood. There's nothing like being responsible for others for bringing you down to your knees. In my recent life, I have felt like a responsibility magnet. Perhaps it is my stage of life development (read: middle age), or perhaps it is a simple confluence of events: tenure, serving as a member and then chairing the board of directors of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, parenthood. Nonetheless, the past 6 years or so have been marked by an ongoing requirement that I be responsible—not just for myself, ...
