“You manage things, you lead people.”Grace (“Amazing Grace”) Murray Hopper, a pioneering computer scientist and US Navy Rear Admiral Some time ago, I was reading Science's Careers and cringed at the title “Can NIH renovate the biomedical workforce?”. The problem was the word “workforce”, since its Russian equivalent was used by the Communist Party leadership to describe other citizens of the Soviet Union—where I grew up—whom they viewed as mere cogs in a machine at the Party's disposal.
