"Want to be an effective, successful, and happy academic? This book hones your skills, showcases your strengths, and helps you manage all professional apsects of academic life. With their focus on life-long learning and positive reflection, Alex and Bailey encourage you to focus on your behaviours and personal challenges, and find real-world solutions to your concerns. Weaving inspirational stories with pragmatic advice from successful academics, this book provides simple tools to help you better meet the demands of modern academia, including: values, effectiveness, priorities, and strategy, workflow and managing workload, creativity, interpersonal relationships, influence, writing and presenting, teaching and lecturing, continuing growth, getting your work/life balance right. Clear, practical, and refreshingly positive, it will inspire you to build the career you want in academia." -- Publisher's Description.