Once considered superfluous, social media has now become a vital tool for scientific information sharing, knowledge building, and networking.

Do your employees simply show up for work or are they committed to making a difference? Your employees’ passion, ideas, feedback and enthusiasm are your lab’s greatest asset.

The traditional view is that the project manager is the project champion who defends the project against budget cuts and maintains the support of project team members and stakeholders. However, sometimes the right decision is not to continue the project but to terminate it.

Business has changed across virtually every industry in this post-recession era. Companies must simply do more with less, and this is especially true in the sciences where, among many other factors, the expiration of valuable drug patents and the dawn of personalized medicine are impacting the way things get done on a daily basis in labs around the world.

According to PMI (the Project Management Institute), project management is the application of knowledge, skills and techniques to execute projects effectively and efficiently.

Five rules for maintaining stakeholder support, managing costs and achieving goals.

There are certain “guaranteed to make life easier” tips you can use that will make your day flow just a little bit better.

E-mail etiquette to get the best results in your lab.

Are you motivated? Is everyone motivated? Yes or no? Take a look around your lab.

Last year I wrote a column about how “soft skills” are required to succeed in virtually every business today. Even in the sciences, a career path that has traditionally allowed insular personalities to thrive, soft skills are more important than ever.

“Steve Jobs, technologist and tastemaker of modern digital culture, described himself as a captain of product design inspiring his teams of workers, as he once said, to go ‘beyond what anyone thought possible’ and to do ‘some great work, really great work that will go down in history.’”