An established primary investigator must function as an intellectual manager as well as a business manager. Primarily, the primary investigator nurtures talent, providing postdocs and graduate students with intellectual capital for their experiments. But the job also demands skill at balancing a ledger, savvy at negotiating the politics of funding and publication, and a taste for civic-minded volunteerism that consumes what little free time remains. Each of these often conflicting responsibilities has to be synthesized with the others; mentoring must somehow translate to the only hard evidence
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