98 Forensic Laboratory Management: Applying Business Principles
ability to manage the situation, or they succumb to pressure—budget, time,
peer, superior or political.”
But what motivates them in the rst place? e most obvious potential
motivator is money and sometimes this may be so, but perhaps not as oen as
one might think. I’m convinced there is a more powerful motive: ego. When
we are constantly referred to as “experts” there is a risk that we may begin to
believe it. e kudos we receive from investigators, prosecutors, and some-
times even judges enhance this feeling. We can be tempted to believe that we
are smarter than everyone else and therefore can say anything we like. We
are, aer all, with the good guys on the side of the ang