While, of course, to some extent this has to be true, especially in life - threatening situations - your employee can lead an evacuation down a fire escape but can't
necessarily design standards for what is an acceptable or unacceptable level of smoke inhalation - it's important to simultaneously push against it, to let your employees know what they need to get done but not
necessarily how they should go about designing their
day and
carrying out their duties.
Where nonacademic jobs once required skills that did not
carry over to academia, that's not
necessarily the case these
days, says Gregory Kopf, who spent more than two decades at the University of Pennsylvania before moving to Wyeth Research.