以权威的姿态发声

It was 4:45 p.m. and I was watching the clock as closely as the slides. Day care closed at 5:30. Our project meeting had already gone past the hard stop. We were circling around a disappointing set of results: The data did not fully support the conclusion we had hoped to make. One senior colleague wanted to run more experiments; another thought we should submit the manuscript with a more conservative conclusion. I didn’t feel experienced enough to cast my vote. But the tension was mounting, and we were no closer to a resolution. Meanwhile, my son was surely going to be the last child at day care. “Let’s make a decision before we leave today,” I blurted out. …