Towards Scientific Leadership : Personal Development Advice for Young Academics

Modern Science and R&D critically rely on teamwork. This completely revised and expanded book "Towards Scientific Leadership" offers a unique approach to helping young professionals transition from productive team members to effective team leaders. The authors provide innovative ideas and strategies for leadership development, setting the book apart from others in the field.

The basis of being a successful leader is authentic self-leadership – essential for all who want to control their own life. People who know themselves and realise what it takes to be productive and deliver results also understand how to lead others and inspire them to perform naturally and undertake initiatives. For scientists, who like to focus on knowledge and insight and how to transfer it to others, self-leadership is key to creating value and adopting it in practice. The book explains how to become a successful (self)leader, not with tricks, but with an inspiring vision and mission, the correct mindset, and effective teamwork.

From reviews of the First Edition:

"This book by Niemantsverdriet and Felderhof focuses on scientific leadership and is geared towards a person becoming a leader and to following managerialist techniques. [...] The strengths of the authors in approaching people and situations with managerial tools comes to the fore with the final section of chapter 4, ‘Conflict management’."
John R. Helliwell in: Journal of Applied Crystallography 51 (2018) http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S160057671800290X