‘Nothing avails but perfection’ may be spelt shorter: ‘Paralysis.’ — Winston Churchill Up until recently, my job entailed updating the faculty policy of a research-intensive university. How do you change the rules that regulate the life of some 500 tenured…
Looking for perfection isn’t necessarily desirable because it’s expensive and the end product isn’t even necessarily optimal.
Have you lost your dog? Here are some ideas that can help you find him/her. When I teach strategic thinking to solve problems, I use a case study along the semester to help students relate ideas to a concrete situation. The…
Last week, Moshe Vardi gave a talk called “Graduate Students, Marshmallows, and Academic Jobs.” Cute title, I thought. But the marshmallow part wasn’t just there for cuteness, it was an integral part of the talk. Vardi was referring to Walter Mischel’s…