Tag Archives: work

The Art of Scolding, cont’d.

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Robert Basil

“We have somehow not successfully received your professional-development documentation,” a Dean’s Office colleague wrote me in an email early in my career at Kwantlen. The sentence both charmed and alarmed me, especially the phrase somehow not successfully received, which seemed … Continue reading →

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Make Room for Working

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Robert Basil

“Of the three goals to which all aspire – success in love, in society, and in profession – only two are plausible simultaneously: you can’t have a smooth love life, a rich social life, and still get your work done. … Continue reading →

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