Share|Admittedly, I was not the best student during my undergraduate studies.  In my small college town, there were too many distractions. However, when a professor I really respected told us about our final paper, I started early and spent hours in the library doing research (this was before the Internet). When I turned in that crisp paper with the perfect staple...

Share|(Dr. Laura Portolese Dias is the author of Human Resource Management, a college textbook published November 2011 by Flat World Knowledge.  Read it free here.) First, let’s be honest, who doesn’t want to see their name on a shiny new book? Who doesn’t want to tell their tenure committee they have a book contract, yes a BOOK contract!  Because of this,...