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I'm probably going to evolve as I move along the path of that photon.

"We really value equally the technical ability of the candidate and their interpersonal leadership skills." - Vlatko Vlatkovic

The cost of accepting a dead-end job, or working for a bad boss or an employer that isn't going anywhere, can be enormous.

"Companies play favorites. You're either one of the favored few, or you're an orphan stepchild, all depending upon where in the company you work."

Very few of the factors that will make you successful are out of your hands.

A Ph.D. is great on fundamentals--it teaches you how to make something completely on your own--but it falls short on the practical stuff every entrepreneur has to master.

If you're entrenched in something that isn't your lifelong passion--see below--you've got to get off those rails and find some way to get back on the right track.

"Listen to everyone who has something to say, file the opinions, and make your own decisions anyway." --Avi Spier

"My passion is helping patients, and their care comes first in my job. For me, it's all about attaining loyalty and trust." --Heather Free

My attitude is that if you are stuck, you should do anything you can to get unstuck as long as it's not illegal, unethical, or obviously foolish.

If they can't influence others positively, they will be relegated to running assays for the next 10 years.

I can't help wondering why, if only 15% to 20% of grad students and postdocs go on to academic careers, do we describe the career choices of the other 80% as "alternative"?

"Our best people foster a killer instinct."

"It might be okay to take a shortcut if you're trying to decide which peanut butter to buy, but in the area of career decisions, shortcuts are dangerous." –J. Edward Russo

The trick is to meet conflict head on with the goal of managing it, not winning.

"When you have happy employees that know that you care about them, they're more loyal and work hard to show you that they can make things work." --Donna Davila

Sometimes, accepting a contract position is what an employee needs to jump-start a career.

The single most important evidence of productive research in industry is the development of research applications that can return value on shareholders' investments.

“Every one of our graduates in the last 4 years have found a job in an industrial or lab setting in their field.” --Ned Djilali, director of the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems at the University of Victoria in British Columbia

"Whether it's how we treat the environment or each other, it's all connected," says Martina Hoft, conservation botanist and real estate broker.