There’s plenty of reading to keep you occupied during your socially distant vacation — It’s often said that leaders shouldn’t let a crisis go to waste. If your idea of using isolation time well is learning about leadership, here are the new and upcoming releases I’ve been reading over the past few months. They’re not exactly beach books, but you might not be going…

Leaders and managers have a lot of exciting reading in the year ahead — I’m constantly surprised by the number of leaders and managers who say they’re too busy to read. Leaders who don’t have time to read are leaders who don’t make time to learn. One of the typical complaints: “There are too many books out there, and most of them aren’t worth…

When someone rejects you, it helps to remember that there’s another you — In the publish-or-perish world of academia, having an article rejected can feel like a stab wound. At the beginning of graduate school, I knew that if I wanted to get tenure, I had to be productive. …

“Time management” is not a solution — it’s actually part of the problem — A few years ago during a break in a leadership class I was teaching, a manager named Michael walked up looking unsettled. His boss had told him he needed to be more productive, so he had spent a few hours analyzing how he spent his time. He had already cut…

Being overwhelmed is no excuse. It’s hard to be good at your job if you’re bad at responding to people. — By Adam Grant I’m really sorry I didn’t say hi, make eye contact or acknowledge your presence in any way when you waved to me in the hallway the other day. It’s nothing personal. …