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Leadership in Forensic
Science Laboratories
Forensic managers face dicult leadership challenges given laboratory
resource limitations and constraints. roughout the text, we address strate-
gies to help forensic managers with dicult leadership challenges. In this
chapter, we introduce a performance model with seven recommendations for
increasing laboratory eciency and eectiveness and show how leaders can
implement these recommendations. e leadership team must articulate the
vision and priorities for laboratory operations. Laboratory priorities have sig-
nicant short-term and long-term consequences. Leadership is needed at all
levels in t ...