Leadership in research: organizing genius.
Science has become complex. Its success is increasingly becoming a matter of collaboration based on established infrastructures and professional norms in response to environmental challenges. Leadership in such situations means organizing the genius inherent in great groups. Three examples--the Manhattan Project, mapping the human genome, and rapidly understanding the nature of the SARS virus--are analyzed, showing a trend away from the individual scientist to a model based on simultaneous competition and collaboration.
Slavkin
Harold
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University of Southern California School of Dentistry, USA. slavkin@hsc.usc.edu
D004497:Education, Dental / Q000458:organization & administration; D016045:Human Genome Project; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007391:International Cooperation; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007857:Leadership; D009689:Nuclear Warfare; D012106:Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D045169:Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / Q000517:prevention & control