Leadership Skills
Some scientists share better than others. While astronomers and geneticists embrace the concept, the culture of ecology still has a ways to go.
ISU researcher examines the struggles for victims to tell their story.
Recently, uncertainty has been getting a bad rap. Hundreds of articles have been printed over the last few years about how uncertainty brings negative effects to the markets and creates a drag on the economy at large. But a new study appearing in the February 2015 edition of the Journal of Consumer Research finds that uncertainty can be motivating.
Scientists are beginning to embrace social media as a viable means of communicating with public audiences.
You went through college, studied hard, perhaps got an advanced degree, and later landed the perfect research job. Years passed. One day you found yourself wondering if there wasn’t something else you could be doing, something more challenging, more rewarding—emotionally and financially.
Study shows how to convince those with low self-confidence to pursue their career choice.
Mastering the technique of selling ideas to upper management is not just a vital part of your responsibilities as a lab manager. “[Selling your ideas] has the potential of providing you with opportunities for professional growth and career advancement,” says Glen Fine, chief executive officer at Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (and a former lab manager).
In the history of technology, The Manhattan Project and the United States space program are considered two of the most stellar accomplishments of the American scientific research enterprise. Both were challenge-driven research and development endeavors—and both employed multidisciplinary teams.
The University of Chicago’s research accelerator, Arete, is running its own experiment—how to bolster promising and novel research ideas before their merit has been recognized. Arete has created the Big Ideas Generator to help get those early stage ideas into motion.
New research from Columbia Business School shows that powerful leaders fail to listen properly and take others’ accounts into perspective, jeopardizing the impact they could have
