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Other people like to have more time to think about data or their next experiment between discussions with their PI. You need to be able to modulate your style to optimize it for each person in your lab. Bauer College of Business, emphasizes the importance of lab members knowing you are involved and available. One way to achieve this is to walk around. Every day, make an effort to walk around the lab and visit with each lab member. On a related note, many people emphasized that lab managers should walk the talk.
In other words, do what you say.
This action builds trust and respect from colleagues and fellow scientists. If you desire students to be in the lab from 8 to 5, they are far more likely to do so if you are also there from 8 to 5. Lorsch gives an example: A good leader not only directs lab members and tells them what to do, but he or she also listens to his or her employees. Taking time to listen is also important because a lot can be gained from your lab members. One way to do this is to organize brainstorming sessions. Not only does this make lab members feel appreciated, but it also provides them with a learning experience.
Most importantly, it gives you a different perspective on your research than you would have if you worked in isolation. Lastly, know when to relax and have fun. Taking time to celebrate as a lab is great for morale and can act as an incentive to reach lab goals.
Science is full of disappointments, and perseverance is essential for survival. Taking time to relax and enjoy your accomplishments will give lab members and you the energy to continue. One of the best ways to prevent issues with employees is to be clear about standards and expectations from the start. Every lab member comes from a different background. Most of the issues rise from a lack of communication about expectations.
Without clear expectations, you cannot expect lab members to do something just how you like it. It is equally important for lab standards to be maintained, or they will not be followed. DeFrank and Lorsch both suggest motivating lab members through rewards rather than fear. Lastly, try to give lab members a sense of control over their work. Many grad students want to have labs of their own one day, and experiment planning is a skill they need to learn now.
Additionally, a sense of pride and ownership can go a long way to motivate employees while freeing you to spend time on other issues. While you may not run a whole lab, your boss will give you smaller tasks to manage.
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Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. It's a sad and sometimes hilarious analysis and indictment of Silicon Valley's quirky sweatshop culture and the blatant discrimination practices of some of its biggest employers. The book is thoroughly researched with plenty of expert analysis and statistics for a serious nonfiction title.
Learning the rhythms of their conversation and the routines of their friendship will show you the kind of relationship you probably haven't seen before. We follow her from grad student to doctorate, from California to Georgia, to Norway, to Hawaii, building labs, working in the field, blowing things up not on purpose , slogging through industrial strength muck, being temporarily deformed by a serious overexposure to poison ivy, and other fun adventures. Currently, she is a tenured professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa where in she built the Isotope Geobiology Laboratories, with support from the National Science Foundation, the U. She's not afraid to poke fun at herself and Bill, and shared humorous events from some unconventional field trips. I have had exposure to many companies that have used Agile principles and values to get them refocused on delivering customer value. By turns sardonic and impassioned, this is an insightful and frequently entertaining guide to the increasingly bizarre world of Silicon Valley and the trends it spawns. Science students should be encouraged to experiment and learn through experiments.
Yet it's not the least bit tedious and in fact will leave you chuckling and gasping at times. It also ends with profiles and analysis of employers who reject Silicon Valley's brutal culture and are espousing sane employment practices. I bought this book the day before yesterday and it's on my Kindle app. I couldn't stop reading this book every time I took a break. I live in Silicon Valley and I've seen first-hand since the 70s growing up here that the privilege tech Bro attitude is really not the answer.
We do need a social justice investing type of Venture capitalist, and I'm glad to read that's happening. I especially like the section on zebras instead of unicorns you'll have to read the section in the book to understand. If you live in Silicon Valley have worked in Tech at all recently or in the past, I guarantee you're going to find this book interesting. I have to say that Dan has only done a superficial look at Agile.
I get the impression that he has never sat down with any working Agile teams before, and he is merely relying on hearsay from a few people he found that got fed up or failed at an adoption. I have had exposure to many companies that have used Agile principles and values to get them refocused on delivering customer value. As a retired director of engineering at Intel, we adopted many of the methods to help us improve our customer and employee satisfaction, the quality of our products, and to meet a number of other business goals.
I wish Lyons would have given a more balanced view to his readers that not everything is as bad as he has painted in his book.
I will give Lyons credit for calling out the issues with training firms and consultancies that have created the mess that he calls out in his book as well as the undertrained managers who adopt Agile in name only. For my 32 years at Intel, I have had many people try to sell me something that claimed to be something it was not. In the case of Agile, the same was true.
I can't count the number of underqualified consultants who never wrote a line of software code or built a product who were eager to certify us in something or teach us a method that was merely snake oil. They were just a group of people who were trying to profit from the popularity of Agile adoptions. So, for the people who fell for that, I could see how they felt like lab rats. Well-reported, earnest, hilarious in parts, and important. A great insight into current management practices and how they work -- and don't.
First part of the book is pretty bleak and funny , but Lyons also reports on some people who are leading companies in a more enlightened way, which gives us hope for the future, and good examples to follow in our own workplaces. This book is in the category of "wealth and inequality" but very readable and entertaining unlike a lot of books on the topic written by economists. But it also shows how companies can be profitable while making employee welfare a core mission objective.
A lot of truth here as well as some constructive solutions for the future. Was hoping it was as funny as his last book. This is a very interesting and thought-provoking book, and disturbing as well, as Lyons pulls back a rather creepy curtain on Silicon Valley. Indeed, I went along on the ride, wanting to hear all of the dirt on these companies because who doesn't? Whether or not what the author contends about amazon is true or not, those contentions started to ring a little hollow when I thought about the author's choice to sell his books on the platform one of the companies he seems to vilify most.
That said, we all know that the tech companies have experimented on users - Google with which results it chooses as responses to certain searches, Facebook with its notorious pop-psychology tinkering with posts - but I was pretty surprised to learn how widespread the psychological "testing" of its own workers is. What unfolds is a nightmarish story of how the creepy practices of the tech industry has spread through other businesses in their hope of mimicking the success they see in Silicon Valley.
The book, however, is written from a kind of bubble where long working hours and job insecurity, among other things, are seen as somewhat unique and mostly stemming from the seeming insanity of Silicon Valley. But those things have long been present in many businesses.