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Multitasking has become part of the productive professional's persona. Walking through business corridors, through airports and while driving, the professional is constantly communicating with the mindset of communicating or learning critical informa
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Today's advent of distributed, massive-scale "cloud computing" is something of a return to the early 1980s, when computing was of a different sort. Rather than individual desktop or laptop machines, which are the current norm, workplace computers wer
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Lab Manager Magazine's Academy: Communication from Lab Manager on Vimeo. If communication can be defined as the transition of information, thought or feeling so that it is satisfactorily understood, then dealing with difficult people is essen
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Lab managers can play an important role in the process of filing patent applications on staff members' inventions. The stakes are often high when patenting a new product or process. So it's important to get everything right. Nowhere is this truer tha
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In last week's blog, I discussed five ways to increase their report writing speed. There is also a sixth approach lab managers can use to get reports written and issued quickly: hire a technical writer to write the report. However, this approach has
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Writing reports can be a pain. Writing takes lab managers away from other work and isolates them behind a desk. Yet timely reports can be necessary, even essential in running a laboratory. So it is essential that laboratory managers write productivel
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General economic conditions have many lab employees concerned about their continued employment. This is particularly the case if their laboratory has undergone a staff reduction. Some big pharmaceutical companies even have closed entire large laborat
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Dr. Hakim Djaballah shares his experiences on setting up a screening lab in an academic environment. He will walk participants through the process on how he and his team designed and set up the HTS lab for MSKCC.
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"The chemical industry is leaving the United States, and it won't be back," said Peter Huntsman, CEO of chemical firm Huntsman Corp. "When demand picks back up, they'll build new capacity overseas--in the Middle East, Singapore and China." He was quo
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Lab managers are limited in what they can do to restore lab staff morale. Still, modest measures can go a long way. Just knowing lab managers care can be reassuring. So lab managers should do what they can to resolve issues such as equitable distribu
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Many laboratories are not happy places anymore. The recession and slow recovery have seen to that. A recent survey released by the Workforce Institute at Kronos Inc. and conducted by Harris Interactive suggests that many employees are not feeling ver
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Many labs' budgets and staff time to prepare documents and presentations are quite limited. One way to make the most of this time may be to revise and update existing print documents for posting on company websites. By taking advantage of the unique
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