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How to Read Like a Doctoral Student

In this blog post, I’ll share five techniques I’ve learned over the past year while learning how to read as a doctoral student, where I’m required to read, retain, and recall large amounts of complex information.

If you must absorb and make use of large quantities of information (everyone?), then you too will benefit from learning the powerful, but not easy, reading techniques that follow.

This is not the reading you learned in kindergarten.

The First Day of My Business Doctorate

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My palms were moist as I shared a U-shaped table with 12 strangers this past Friday morning.

We were all freshies, waiting to matriculate into DePaul University’s Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) program. It was day one of our cohort’s coming three-year journey together.