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Work Nerd | Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour @ Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) | Researching identity, the dark side of high performance, and expertise www.benwalker-phd.com

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The daily, weekly and yearly routine of an academic, and other writers.

24.11.2024 07:35 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

BTW, not intended as a diss of our wonderful junior scholars, and I'm no veteran myself! I'm thinking more that this is all a symptom of our broken peer review system, people being too overloaded to accept reviews etc.

24.11.2024 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When reviewing, a change from early in my career is that I look for whether a paper is/can be 'good enough', not perfect.

Yet that perfectionist mindset seems to underpin almost every recent review I've got as an author 🫀

Makes me wonder if we're relying too much on junior scholars...?

24.11.2024 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why β€˜friction thinkers’ see hidden opportunities first β€œWhen we face a problem, our natural tendency is to race ahead – but some friction is actually a good thing.”

Here's my high-quality video interview with the folks at "Big Think." It does a nice job of capturing major themes in
"The Friction Project," my book with Huggy Rao. Great production team and editing. Filmed in a mansion they rented in Hillsborough, CA.

bigthink.com/series/the-b...

19.11.2024 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

This sounds a bit like the Hungry Judge Effect - which I think means we’re fine to submit at the end of the year as long as the editors are well fed :-) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_...

06.12.2023 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think you’re probably right that there’s no good time πŸ˜‚

08.12.2023 03:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A hypothesis: Submitting a paper for publication around this time of year is a bad idea because editors are in "clear my desk" mode and are more likely to give you a rushed/unfavourable decision.

Yes? No? Kind of?

06.12.2023 09:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Got some bad news today (paper rejection after mammoth 1st revision, boo!). But thankfully still have good news from last week to pick me up: my research leave application for next year has been approved, and I'll be based at Emlyon Business School for the second half of 2024! πŸ₯³πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡«πŸ‡·

31.10.2023 08:08 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Over the years I’ve enjoyed HBS Prof Author Brooks column in the Atlantic. He has a new book out and this review of it is hilarious. A proper piss take. I laughed aloud this morning. It cheered me up. I needed it. Oh the irony. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

18.10.2023 07:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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