Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

He is lead teacher of the yearly MIT Professional Education class,”Leadership Skills for Engineering and Science Faculty,” which has educated hundreds of college at MIT and around the globe in the human subjects involved with major technical teams in academia. He is currently a Fellow of four professional societies: ACM, AAAS, SIAM, and IEEE.

There is no sense in denying, or ignoring, it: Human nature plays a part in everyday technical work. As a writer, you merely must respect and value the interpersonal relationships which form the basis of teamwork.
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After all, I was tenured and had supervised dozens of students looking for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. However in 1999, at the height of the Internet boom, I took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of system architecture in Akamai Technologies, an MIT startup found here in Cambridge. That position humbled me and taught me lessons on leadership that I use now, some 20 years later.
The workshop content was not complicated, but if you are currently running a research laboratory, chances are, you have never noticed it. That is because academia and other research associations seldom offer leadership and management coaching –and as a result, too many scientists and engineers waste their own time and resources dealing with unproductive interpersonal problems and unnecessary battle. To help right this wrong, here are five the main lessons I learned while at Akamai, All which I continue t… Read More