Lately I've been hearing a piece of advice given for formal presentations: to disarm your audience with a self-deprecating joke near the beginning of your talk. The idea is, your audience will be less defensive and less likely to attack you if you...

MYTH: If you love what you do, you'll rise to the top decile in any profession. Anyone who has watched a reality tv show (take ANTM or Project Runway for example) knows that how much you love what you do has almost nothing to do with whether you...

Yeah, I did it again. I watched David Gregory. I've decided he's pretty good at interviewing. He just sucks at moderating. Last week's was a fiasco with people talking over each other, arguing, and he couldn't get a word in edgewise to control them...

When the advisor does not want to admit (s)he is wrong even after seeing the data I wish I had such simple answers to this question as I did for the last post in this series. I'll give you some suggestions. You'll have to do the experiment (and...

Lately I've been having to explain this a lot, so I figured hey why not blog about it. 1. Nobody tells you it's a requirement The thing about unspoken rules is that the in-crowd shares them with their proteges. The auslanders argue among themselves...