How do you stop the drama? Don’t play the role.
Most often, people behave as adults and can speak for themselves. Sometime it just requires a mediator to help facilitate the communications.
Easily distracted? Want to get more done? Develop Deep work habits.
Focus your efforts toward being mindful with your decisions on what to act upon. There are always going to be distractions and these distractions can derail the focus toward deep work. It is that deep work that’s important to really develop novel breakthroughs and innovative approaches to your work.
Delegate goals, not tasks, in order to get things done.
Do you need help? Delegate. In our last post we talked about some ways to get help, but what about getting the people you pay to help you? They already know that they should be helping you… right? Unfortunately, you may not always be asking the right person for...
Start up budgets aren’t about the money
Planning a budget isn’t easy. Are you about to start your own lab? Are you in the middle of budget hell, anxious about presenting to a grant committee? Most postdocs and junior investigators I speak to believe they need to start out by knowing how much money they...