Research Management Today

MAR 01, 1991

Research managers should aim to maintain an environment in which practitioners can be creative, and leave the choice of the object of research to the researchers themselves.

DOI: 10.1063/1.881283

John J. Gilman

The general problem besetting research management was stated succinctly centuries ago: There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things, because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old condition, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

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John J. Gilman, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.