House cleaning, gardening, and article writing.
Working through the assessment exercises from Timothy Baldwin, William Bommer and Robert Rubin’s textbook Developing Management Skills: What Great Managers Know and Do (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008), book site here.
Watched Stanford entrepreneurship lecture on Adding Value to Companies.
Martin Van Creveld on a 1998 television interview: soft-spoken, dismisses claims that the ‘future of war’ will be dominated by ‘cyberterrorism’ and other Revolution in Military Affairs trends.
A colleague told me this week of how a professor used the Australian Research Council‘s national competitive grants program as a bootstrap process for promotion to dean. First, they established their expertise, publication track record, and created a cross-institutional and collaborative research team. Second, they split the ARC grant proposal into different components, delegated each to different team members, and then reassembled them into a completed proposal. Third, they ramped up the number of applications to 15-to-20 per year, with a 50% success rate. The grant revenues made a significant contribution to the department funding. The professor was soon promoted to dean.