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Conflict, leadership, and credit

We work in teams and we are evaluated as individuals. A Nobel Prize goes to one laureate or is shared by no more than three; William Campbell used his Nobel Lecture to say he accepted as the representative of a team whose members could not all be named. Careers are still built largely on individual achievement, which makes credit something a team plans rather than settles at the end. Agree early, and in the open, how members will contribute and share authorship.

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