September 22, 2008
How to Say No (and Get Away With It)
Here are some strategies to lessen the odds that your refusal will be taken as a personal affront
Case No. 1: You are an assistant professor sitting in your office, poring over some data from your most recent experiment. If you can just get a few more hours of work in today, you might be able to submit a paper for a national conference before the deadline.
Suddenly a senior professor knocks. It is Von Doom, head of the department's tenure committee. "I have some great news," he
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