...better than any administrative supervisor. Mr. CEK Mees, of Eastman Kodak, has summed up this situation as follows : "The best person to decide what research...research. The next best is the head of the department. Aftp" *.>...•. V-MI le'> ete field of best persons and meet increasingly worse groups. The first...

...vice president of research for Eastman Kodak, and one of the first authors on the management of R&D: The best person to decide what research work shall be done is the man who is doing the research, and the next best person is the head of the department, who knows all about the subject and the work;...

...her teeth and eats them Freezes water with a single glance She is God. View from the bottom CEK MEES The best person to decide what research work shall be done is the man who is doing the research, and the next best person is the head of the department, who knows all about the subject and the work;...

...importance of not micromanaging. In the words of CEK Mees, who was then the director of research at Kodak, The best person to decide what research work shall be done Is the man (sic) who Is doing the research, and the next best person Is the head of the department, who knows...

...their preferences are playing a major role: The following spells out the above principles very well: The best person to decide what research work shall...research. The next best is the head of the department lwithin the research laboratoryl. After that you leave the field of best persons and meet increasingly...

...survey of the literature, and both he and Burton Klein were fond of quoting Mees's famous statement that the "best person to decide what research work shall be done is the man who is doing the research work. . . . Finally there is a committee of company vice presidents, which is wrong all the time."...