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Lifelong learning: Science professors need leadership training

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To drive discovery, scientists heading up research teams large and small need to learn how people operate, argue Charles E. Leiserson and Chuck McVinney.

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  1. Charles E. Leiserson is professor of computer science and engineering at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,

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  2. Chuck McVinney is president of McVinney &amp,

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  3. Co., a management-consulting firm specializing in facilitating creative thinking and leadership, in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.,

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Leiserson, C., McVinney, C. Lifelong learning: Science professors need leadership training. Nature 523, 279–281 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/523279a

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