If you hate feeling rushed, you’ll build in plenty of margin to make sure there’s enough time to do what you need to do. Right? Wrong! Many of us don’t excel at managing ourselves, and that’s why the discomfort ramps up when we’re put in charge of managing others. In this edition of Doing What Works we talk about the things you didn’t learn in school that would’ve come in handy once you graduated.

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Creativity, Inc. [https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Inspiration/dp/0812993012] author Ed Catmull might make you wary of the so-called wisdom of adages. They’re useful as a starting point, but experience is the best teacher.

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Want an entertaining way to learn to be a leader? Try the movie Broadcast News [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092699/].