I am somewhat allergic to celebrity. I will admit that my tendency is to avoid things that everyone is reading and talking about. However, as I was writing about peer review for my next Short Guide, I realized I needed to do some reading with a particular focus on mindsets and vulnerability. I started with […]
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About the Short Guides Series
As I was finalising the third volume in this series of books, my editor suggested that I might want to write a series introduction. I published the first volume, The Scholarly Writing Process in November 2016. The 2nd volume, Finding Time for your Scholarly Writing was published in April/June 2018. Volume 3, Scholarly Publishing, was […]
Read More »Selecting a Journal, an excerpt from Scholarly Publishing (A Short Guide)
The third volume in the Short Guides series will be published in January 2019. In Scholarly Publishing I focus on the big picture of publishing for scholarly audiences. After discussing the purpose of publishing for scholarly readers and what is meant by making a contribution to the advancement of knowledge, I look in detail at the main […]
Read More »4 years of A Meeting With Your Writing
A long term participant in A Meeting With Your Writing recently mentioned that it has been 4 years. Wow, where does the time go? I remember when I came up with this idea. I wondered what I would do if no one signed up. Or, worse, if only 3 people signed up and then I […]
Read More »Introducing Confidence Boost
On the 10th anniversary of self-employment, I’ve been reviewing and updating my services. This post is part of a series introducing you to what I offer now. Sometimes you need help Wayfinding and sometimes you are travelling along your path and you get to a crossroads or a tree falls across the road or something and you need […]
Read More »Introducing Wayfinding
On the 10th anniversary of self-employment, I’ve been reviewing and updating my services. This post is part of a series introducing you to what I offer now. You can’t always get what you want But if you try sometime, you just might find You get what you need (Jagger & Richards, You Can’t Always Get […]
Read More »WOW! It’s been 10 years.
10 years ago this month I became self-employed. My contract as a Policy Analyst at SSHRC ended on April 1, 2005. And over the next few weeks I figured out a way to offer services. I’m not good marking the beginning of things, as my partner will attest, so I’m not sure the exact date […]
Read More »Reruns: Holiday Parties: turning dread into opportunity
I originally published this post in November 2010 and reran it in November 2011. It’s that time of year. No matter what you celebrate (if anything) you are going to be invited to parties. Many of these parties will involve talking to people you don’t know very well — the husband of your department chair, […]
Read More »The cardinal rule of time travel
Last week I talked about how helpful my Magnificent Metaphorical Time Machine is. Travelling forward in time can help you see the outcome you want without worrying about the messy and difficult process of actually getting there. However, there is a cardinal rule to time travel: Never travel backwards There is a reason backwards time […]
Read More »The value of time travel
I have a Time Machine. When I first started using it, I was a bit nervous. I worried that my clients would think this was a bit too weird. I was probably a bit tentative because of that and so it maybe didn’t work as well as it could have. But it still worked. Now […]
Read More »The experiment was successful
Back in August I decided to try an experiment. I would run a virtual writing group. I contacted a couple of people to see what they thought. They were enthusiastic. I figured out a structure, decided on a time, picked a price out of the air, and started promoting it. This experiment was A Meeting […]
Read More »Actively managing your career
The problems identified around leadership/management seem to be twofold: there are good people who are not moving into those roles/positions there are people in those roles/positions who are not doing the kind of job we’d like them to be The piece from the HBR blog and the parody of it highlight one contributor to this […]
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