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© 2009 by the Burroughs Wellcome FundAll rights reserved.Permission to use, copy, and distribute this manual orexcerpts from this manual is granted provided that (1)the copyright notice above appears in all reproductions;(2) use is for noncommercial educational purposesonly; (3) the manual or excerpts are not modified in anyway; and (4) no figures or graphic images are used,copied, or distributed separate from accompanyingtext. Requests beyond that scope should be directedto news@bwfund.org.Some parts of Excellence Everywhere are taken directlyfrom Making the Right Moves.The views expressed in this publication are those of itscontributors and do not necessarily reflect the views ofthe Burroughs Wellcome Fund.This manual is also available online atwww.excellenceeverywhere.org.Project Developer: Victoria McGovern, Ph.D.Editor: Russ CampbellDesigner: Liaison Design GroupCopyeditor: Ernie HoodBurroughs Wellcome Fund21 T.W. Alexander DriveP.O. Box 13901Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-3901www.bwfund.orgAcknowledgmentsThe course on which this manual is based wasconceived and driven by Maryrose Franko (HowardHughes Medical Institute) and the late and muchmissedMartin Ionescu-Pioggia (BWF), and this bookowes much to—and draws from—the manual producedfrom that course, Making the Right Moves: A PracticalGuide to Scientific Management for Postdocs andNew Faculty. We are grateful to the team which builtthe earlier manual and to HHMI for making it easy forus to move ahead with Excellence Everywhere.Thank you to the scientists who are quoted throughoutthis book. They have provided personal insightsand frank comments without which this book wouldbe much diminished. Many, many other researchersfrom around the world—too many to list- providedinformal input and critical reading of drafts, and wethank them all for their time and for helping us makethis manual a resource worth sharing.Thanks especially to patient colleagues Jill Conleyand Maryrose Franko at the Howard Hughes MedicalInstitute and Barbara Sina at the Fogarty InternationalCenter of the U.S. National Institutes of Health fortheir long term encouragement, support, and helpover the course of this project, and to HHMI editorPat Davenport for helpful comments throughout theprocess. Thanks to HHMI and to the Wellcome Trustfor access to their international awardee networks,and to Jimmy Whitworth and Pat Goodwin at theWellcome Trust for helpful discussions. Thanks toscience writers Heather B. McDonald and ChristopherThomas Scott, who provided some additional writing.Appreciation to Queta Bond, president emeritus nowof BWF, who has been a great supporter of this work.Finally, deep gratitude to Dan Colley, StephanieJames, and Michael Gottlieb, who on seeing theU.S.-focused Making the Right Moves in 2005 told us“You need to make one of these for the rest of theworld.” Who can resist such good advice from suchwise people?
Table of ContentsVII119PrefaceChapter 1Getting Started:F i n d i n g a n d M o v i n ginto a Job2 The Job Search6 The Job Application8 The Job Interview14 Negotiating Your Position18 ResourcesChapter 2e n t r y a n d r e - e n t r y :e s t a b l i s h i n g y o u r s e l f a sa scientist in a new job20 People You Should Get to Know21 Support Facilities and Services24 Working with Human Subjects26 Responsibilities Beyond the Laboratory27 Scientists and the Outside World28 Understanding Your Institutionand How to Progress Within It32 Resources33 Chapter 3Getting Started:E q u i p p i n g Y o u r L a band Hiring People4533 Designing and EquippingYour New Lab33 Putting the People You NeedIn Place38 Interviewing Applicants40 Evaluating Applicants41 Making the Offer42 Asking Staff to Leave44 ResourcesChapter 4M a n a g i n g Y o u rMany Roles46 Your Role as a Laboratory Leader47 Developing Leadership Skills48 How to Improve YourLeadership Skills50 Creating Your Vision as a Leader51 Developing Your Leadership Styletable of contentsIII
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