“The daily achievement of micro-goals here is key.”

How do you succeed in an environment that rewards intellectual achievement?  Get great ideas? Adequate funding?  Collaborative colleagues? The answer, according to Donald Hall, is not what you might think. He argues that success in academia depends on thinking strategically about how you spend every hour of your day. Hall … Read More

“We must learn to hold the tension between the reality of the moment and the possibility that something better might emerge.”

Sometimes, it looks like we have two choices: up or down, agree or disagree, fight or flight.  There is a third way, though, Parker Palmer reminds us. Instead of trying to resolve every tension quickly, consider “allowing opposing ideas to enrich and enlarge each other until a new vision emerges” … Read More