Dr. Rebecca Weinbraub led a WIM Professional Development session at HSC in the IRD building.
WIM Brown Bag Book Club at HSC
Please join us on Monday, April 20, 2015, Noon to 1, in the Norris Medical Library West Conference Room, when we’ll be discussing our latest book: The Daughters of the Dragon, by William Andrews
We will also be choosing our next book, so please feel free to bring a possible book idea and join us for that. Everyone is welcome.
Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow review: No one in the club liked the book well enough to finish it. It’s a very dry read, like Mojave in August level dry, choppy, and episodic. The same research was discussed over and over and over again with slight variations, and it was rather depressing news: gut instinct is overrated and usually wrong, most success is purely luck, and nothing is getting better because it’s all just regressing to the mean. I’m not sure the authors are correct about any of this; let’s not forget what M. Twain said about statistics. There’s a lot of statistics in this book. So in addition to being boring, it was depressing, so we didn’t bother to finish it. And there you have it. Ginger Mayerson
“Team Dynamics” | Thursday, April 23th at 12pm
RSVP at http://www.uscwim.org/calendar.asp by April 21st
(Lunch sponsored by the Divisions of GHPGIM and Nephrology)
HSC Location: TBD (please RSVP so we can update you on the location)
Leading the Workshop:
Dr. Rebecca Weintraub, Clinical Professor & Director, Master of Communication Management Program
“Rebecca Weintraub has spent more than thirty years in the field of strategic communication, executive coaching, facilitation, change management, and organizational behavior. She began her career as an assistant professor at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) where she was also the Director of Forensics.
She then joined the Hughes Aircraft company, which became Hughes Electronics, where over a fifteen-year period she held a number of positions in communication and total quality in the satellite manufacturing division before becoming Director of Corporate Communications for the Corporation, a position she held for five years. In that position she was responsible for communication strategy and tactics for the corporation as well as providing executive coaching for a variety of Hughes executives. She left Hughes Electronics to join the consulting firm of Towers Perrin where she focused on strategic organizational communication, health and welfare benefits communication strategy, and change management. Her clients included Northrop Grumman, MGM, Mazda, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, WellPoint Health Systems, and the L.A. Times.
Dr. Weintraub is currently a Clinical Professor of Communication at USC in the Annenberg School for Communication where she is both the Director of the Communication Management Master’s Degree Program and the Director of the Center for Corporate and Community Education. She teaches strategic organizational and corporate communication classes in that program. Her Strategic Corporate Communication course was Annenberg’s first on-line course. Dr. Weintraub was awarded the 2004 Best On-line Teaching award for higher education by the US Distance Learning Association. In addition to her teaching, she provides strategic communication planning, presentation, executive coaching, management training, and facilitation consulting services to organizations in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Her clients have included such organizations as Toyota Motor Sales, Fox Networks, the Dental Health Foundation, Mindjet, the County of Los Angeles, and the Redondo Beach Unified School District, the US Navy and Department of Defense.
Dr. Weintraub received her Bachelor’s degree from UCLA and her Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from USC.”
(source: https://pressroom.usc.edu/rebecca-weintraub/)
WIM Professional Development
Mindfulness with Rachel Plasencia
USC Center for Work and Family Life
February 24, 2015 at HSC, IRD/IRB Room 305
Lunch sponsored by Divisions of GHPGIM and Nephrology
Please RSVP at http://uscwim.org/calendar.asp
FREE to WIM Members; $10 for non-members
Next meeting: Monday, March 2, 2015
Norris Library West Conference Room
Noon to 1
Next book: Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow
By Daniel Kahneman
ISBN: 978-0374533557
More information: http://us.macmillan.com/thinkingfastandslow/DanielKahneman
Please RSVP at http://www.uscwim.org/calendar.asp
Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow is a long book, so we’ll only be discussing parts 1-3 of at this meeting.
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At our last meeting on January 27 we discussed:
“Michael Connelly’s The Burning Room is the 19th in the series which follows Los Angeles Detective Harry Bosch. In this iteration, Harry is in a newly minted cold case squad and partnered with a rookie (perhaps trigger happy) partner named Lucia Soto. They are given a case after the death of Orlando Merced, a mariachi performer, who had been shot nearly a decade ago in Mariachi Plaza. His shooting sparked political change but was never solved. Now that they have the physical evidence from his body, they can try to trace the weapon.
“While they are working on this case, Bosch discovers a personal case that Soto is looking into – another decades old case in which several children were killed in a fire. They work on both cases, following divergent trails that lead them into murky waters of the past.
“During our conversation there were mixed reviews. There were a few who found this very dark with very little redemption and that the resolution was uneventful and unsatisfying. Others found the book realistic, and were familiar with the way Connelly writes the Bosch character. Some found it not to have literary merit, though 19 in a series does seem to speak to staying power.
“The group all seemed to enjoy the Angelino nature of the book, with specific set locations in the city that made the novel seem more real somehow. Perhaps that’s why the lack of resolution is so difficult to read?”
Recap by Aubrey Hicks Thank you, Aubrey!
Next WIM Book Club meeting:
DATE: Monday, January 26, 2015
LOCATION: Norris Medical Library, West Conference Room
TIME: Noon to 1:00
BOOK: The Burning Room, by Michael Connelly
AND we will be deciding the next book, so please RSVP http://uscwim.org/calendar.asp so we can know your suggested book before the club meeting.
Something to read over the holidays!
“What do you do with a tired old cop? You give him a bright young rookie to keep him on the ball. In return for this infusion of energy, the kid gets the benefit of the broad experience and infinite wisdom of the veteran. That’s the way it’s supposed to work, anyway. But in THE BURNING ROOM, Michael Connelly’s latest Harry Bosch mystery, there’s precious little wisdom the L.A.P.D. detective can impart to his new partner, Lucia (Lucy) Soto, about the curious case of a homicide victim who took 10 years to die.”
New York Times Sunday Book Review
Our previous book:
At our meeting on December 8, 2014, we discussed Stephen Hawking’s memoir, “My Brief History,” a book we all enjoyed very much, but most of us would never have read if it wasn’t the club choice. Dr. Hawking writes in a dry, wry style that might be because he’s British, or possibly because his communication software only allows him to generate three words per minute. Either way, it’s a delightful book and due to the work that went into writing it, we’re lucky to have it. One thing that struck all of us is that Dr. Hawking writes, in this book, like he’s still the happy young guy on the cover, maybe a little older, but still that guy. Although WIM are intelligent, educated, sophisticated women of the world, we all admitted to being somewhat puzzled by the one small chapter on Dr. Hawking’s science. We had to look up some of the words, and even so, it wasn’t much clearer. More comprehensible were his working relationships with his fellow scientists and how, even when in competing areas or areas of disagreement, they kept their sense of humor, and kept the science first and foremost. “My Brief History” is a fast read, delightful and informative (even or especially the science chapter). Highly recommended.
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