Micromanagement of researchers—constantly dictating what they read, what they write, what they publish—produces only mediocrity; the risk of giving people freedom (that they will waste it) is much smaller than the certainty of mediocrity from micromanagement.

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Rupert Sheldrake

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I think micro management produces only mediocrity if you're constantly controlling and dictating what people read and think you'll only get mediocrity yes and that if you give people a degree of Freedom okay there's a risk that they will abuse it and they won't come up with something but it's it's a much smaller risk than the risk of micromanaging them

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Iain McGilchrist, Rupert Sheldrake and Alex Gomez-Marin in conversationDr Iain McGilchrist
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:27:29 PM

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