How lab heads can learn to lead

Lessons in leadership from outside the laboratory.

Email Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X Find a new job Access through your institution Buy or subscribe New principal investigators (PIs) tend to be thrust into a role that includes administration and management, budgeting, lab infrastructure, mentoring and — perhaps most difficult — shepherding junior scientists to achieve their full potential. Many researchers receive little training in leadership skills to help them adapt. And the problem is not limited to just new PIs. In Nature ’s 2017 survey of PhD students , one-quarter of the respondents were dissatisfied with their adviser’s

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