Table of Contents
Introduction 1
1 Utah, Wall Street, Harvard 7
Finding My Place as a Teacher
2 First Class 23
Anxious Thoughts, Preparations, and Patterns
3 The Worm Deck 47
Distance Matters
4 Teaching Individuals 65
Trying to Create an Equal Opportunity Classroom
5 The Ties That Bind 81
Covenant versus Contractual Relationships
6 The Rationale 97
What I Teach and When I Teach It
7 The Teaching Session Concludes 111
The After-Action Review
8 Reflections from a Room with a View 123
The Meta-Conversation
9 Life Away from the Pit-Musings on University Life 131
Connections and Disconnections
10 700 Sundays 143
Keeping Perspective
11 Why Managing, Mentoring, and Teaching Overlap 149
Leaders Take Notice
12 Five Warnings 161
Why This Ride May Be Hazardous to Your Health
13 Hungry for Feedback! Oh, Really? 171
14 Mr. Rogers 185
Improving the Teaching Neighborhood
Appendix A Preparing for Difficult Conversations 205
Appendix B Crucial Conversations 207
Bibliography 213
Acknowledgments 221
About the Author 225