Lab Leadership
U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory scientist Tiffany Santos has been awarded a L'Oreal USA Fellowship for Women in Science for her work in materials science at the Center for Nanoscale Materials.
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In Management 101 we covered the four principal parts of management: plan, execute, monitor, and adjust. It is important to remember that all four are essential. You will never make it to the other three if you get hung up on the first one. While planning is important, you have to get beyond that and get the work done. Analysis paralysis can be the death of any organization.
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Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. has joined the Microsoft BioIT Alliance, which brings together pharmaceutical, biotechnology, hardware and software industries to explore new ways to share complex biomedical data and collaborate among multi-disciplinary teams.
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Concerned a brain drain could hurt its long-term ability to compete, Google Inc. is tackling the problem with its typical tool: An algorithm. The Internet search giant recently began crunching data from employee reviews and promotion and pay histories in a mathematical formula Google says can identify which of its 20,000 employees are most likely to quit.
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I am currently working on a new book, called MOJO. Unlike my book What Got You Here Won't Get You There, which focused on classic behaviors that successful people get wrong, MOJO will focus on one attribute that all successful people share.
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Here are three principles to help managers climb the strategic summit.
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Milestone no cost webinar event will discuss how to prepare your laboratory for the highest quality trace metal data with the use of your ICP/ICP-MS instrumentation.
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The Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) has announced that an agreement has been reached to begin a partnership with MipTec a European conference and exhibition.
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All managers have many things in common: they all accept greater responsibility and accountability than non-management employees, they all exercise control over particular organization functions, and they all focus on getting things done through othe
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The expression the glass ceiling first appeared in the Wall Street Journal in 1986 and was then used in the title of an academic article by A.M. Morrison and others published in 1987. Entitled Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Can Women Reach the Top of Americas Largest Corporations?, it looked at the persistent failure of women to climb as far up the corporate ladder as might be expected from their representation in the working population as a whole.
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In this month's Science Matters column, the Kelly Global Workforce Index survey, by global workforce solutions company Kelly Services, reveals that there is a strong desire for jobs that fulfill vital psychological needs of employees—something that is fueling a global shift in workplace dynamics.
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Staff reductions and corporate restructuring frequently result in fragmentation of high-performance work teams. Because they are often a cost-effective means of accomplishing corporate goals, some of these teams need to be reconstructed.
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