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August 19, 2025
The Pursuit of Happyness: Persistence Through Rejection
How Chris Gardner's refusal to quit despite overwhelming obstacles mirrors the persistence required in academic medicine — multiple grant rejections, paper rejections, and the long slog to promotion.
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August 19, 2025
The Push for Compensation Transparency in Academic Medicine
Why more physicians are demanding transparency around compensation — the equity issues, the gender and racial pay gaps, and what institutions and faculty can do to push for change.
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August 18, 2025
Group Coaching vs. Individual Coaching: Which Is Right for You?
A comparison of group and individual coaching formats — the benefits of each, when one might be better than the other, and how some physicians benefit from both.
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August 17, 2025
Managing Up in Academic Medicine
How to effectively manage your relationship with your chair, dean, or division chief — communicating your needs, making their job easier, and getting the support you need without being seen as demanding.
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August 16, 2025
The Pursuit of Happyness and the Long Game in Academic Medicine
Chris Gardner kept running when quitting made more sense. What The Pursuit of Happyness teaches about persistence in academic medicine.
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August 15, 2025
Running Effective Meetings as a Physician Leader
Why most meetings in academic medicine are terrible — and a practical framework for making them shorter, more focused, and actually productive.
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August 15, 2025
The Work Values Inventory: Aligning Your Career with What Matters
How a work values inventory can help physicians clarify what they actually want from their career — beyond prestige and salary — and make better decisions about roles, institutions, and priorities.
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August 14, 2025
The Difference Between Venting and Processing
Why venting feels productive but rarely is — and how to shift from spinning in frustration to actually making sense of what's happening and deciding what to do next.
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August 13, 2025
Good Will Hunting: Potential, Fear, and the Courage to Change
How Will Hunting's resistance to his own potential mirrors what many physicians experience — fear of leaving the familiar, self-sabotage, and what it takes to finally move toward what you actually want.
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August 13, 2025
Should You Take the Myers-Briggs? A Physician's Guide
An honest look at the MBTI — what it's useful for, where it falls short, and how physicians can use it thoughtfully.
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August 12, 2025
The Physician Leadership Pipeline Is Broken
Why academic medicine promotes people into leadership roles without developing them first — and how the lack of a formal physician leadership pipeline hurts institutions and the physicians thrust into these roles.
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August 11, 2025
The Hogan Assessment: Understanding Your Derailment Risks
An overview of the Hogan Assessment suite — particularly the Hogan Development Survey (HDS) which measures 'dark side' personality traits that emerge under stress. Why understanding your derailers is critical for physician leaders.
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