Five Steps to a Successful Sabbatical

摘要

A sabbatical leave can mean interrupting your research, getting paid less, and disrupting family life. But ask professors if their sabbatical was worth the effort and they answer with one voice: yes. Go all the way, they say. Take a full year and go to a new city or country, if you can. Why? New environments, fresh perspectives, and unfamiliar routines boost your creativity. Robert Austin offers personal and empirical evidence. In 10 years he has held faculty positions at Harvard and Copenhagen Business Schools, and is now dean of business administration at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.