I’m watching a large contingent of Sudexho workers (yes, they use that company here also) prepare the annual MBL alumni picnic in the center of the quad, outside my office window. It’s very distracting from the matters at hand, which involves expediting a review of a paper that a Nobel Laureate is submitting to the journal (needless to say, we”ll have expedited review).
This morning was the annual MBL Corporation meeting–the 700 scientists who make up the Corporation that is called The Marine Biology Laboratory come together to discuss and vote and even admit new members to our community. New flash: we voted in everyone recommended by the Science Council to be voted in. Which brings me to my central point. Sitting through the entire two and a half hours of the meeting this morning, I was reminded by how similar their institutional/cultural concerns were to our very own. In fact, I suspect entire paragraphs could have been lifted from the discussions and with appropriate redaction, been applied to Krasnow.
All of this is very good news. Scientists have similar concerns about their institutions–particularly the ones that they work at. And those of us in management would do well to listen very carefully.
Ocean is blowing up quite a bit of an on-shore breeze. It feels great coming down the hallway–we have the firedoor open to our offices here.
Jim
Discoverers and Discoveries 