Back in my querying days, a West Coast Millicent once huffily informed me that he’d hated my premise when he’d first read my query three months before at his previous job in an East Coast agency — and he still hated it now. So much so that he took the time to write me a pers...
JOB OPENINGS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (Ph.D.) IN CIVIL ENGINEERING, ...
That’s a question that I wrestled with as I was researching the book. I looked at myself. My career as a business academic is long enough to remember back in the late years of the 20th century, when we were obsessed with business process reengineering and cross-functional commun...
It [friction fixing] starts with the mindset that leaders of organizations see themselves as editor in chief, whose job it is to subtract unnecessary stuff or to make it difficult for people to add it in the first place. At a company called Asana, we collabo...
by extraordinary events: some political (the Troubles), some economic (the rise and fall of the Celtic Tiger), some personal, all sudden openings that offer the rare opportunity for transformation and even transcendence. Madden holds a BA from Trinity College, Dublin and an MA from the ...
That may seem self-evident, but in practice, seeing one’s own manuscript carved up by a pro can be pretty nerve-wracking. Obviously, if a writer is going to be given necessary critique, it’s quite a bit less traumatic to hear it from an editor whose job it is to help improve it...
Trump was able to exploit the backlash against globalization which was already brewing in some parts of the US, such as the mid-West, which had suffered job and income losses as factories and companies moved to other nations such as China, where production was cheaper and more efficient. His...
These job boards are focused on remote developer jobs in general, without a particular speciality. Some of them are slightly more general, but have categories that make it easy to find remote developer jobs within. Remotely Awesome JobsThere are hundreds of remote-friendly developer jobs added ...
Annie Duke received an NSF Fellowship to attend graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania to study cognitive psychology. Because she missed the job market one year due to a stomach ailment that put her in the hospital, she decided to try to make some mo...
adventure in the latter third of the book. As usual when writing, my characters have taken me in a direction I did not anticipate. Anna is no exception, as she is strong and independent woman (she’s forty-nine years old in this book, just prior to taking on the headmistress job). ...