It feels like Management doesn't understand that producing proper papers takes time and is only used to "Traditional Office-Work" and have never done any real R&D, testing, & Validation.
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- Thread starter Will The Serious
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Ironically, when it comes to academic research, the bean counters require things they can measure rather than intangibles. I suspect many great researchers from the past would not thrive today.
This is why upper management in Academic Research should never be run by "Bean Counters".
It should be a former or existing Academic Researcher who runs the management side.
We all saw how disastrous Boeing became when the "Bean Counters" started taking over.
You can't have leadership run by accounting, that's a recipe for disaster.
Leadership is only handed over to the Bean counters when sales staff is unavailable. My experience is it is Sales, or the scientific equivalent (grant writers, fundraisers, endowment, etc.), that drives R&D, production, AND the bean counters. As a former engineer for a manufacturing company, the promises made to make a sale were often insane.
However, as has been discussed above, there are plenty in the scientific community that thrive on intangible non-deliverables. Often, even a well informed manager doesn't understand the full details of the concepts being researched.
-Will
