A Good Manager Topic: what is your idea about a good manager of a scientific research group? Coupled with the increasing fierce competition between researchers in international level, many countries realized that talents is the decisive factors in the contest. However, too many elites are of little use unless they united with each other. To some degree, the group manager’s characters determine a nation’s research potential. I believe there are three standers to judge whether a manager is effective. First, to be a good leader, passion and vitality are indispensable. Scientific research has high requirements on imagination, creativity, logic, and motivation. Without passion, the daily research would become boring, even torturing; without vitality, the outcome would be perfunctory and partial. Manager’s passion and vitality is the well from which people could dredge confidence and inspiration. It is hard to image a creative group leaded by a zeal less leader. Secondly, a good manager must have perspective. The advantage of a research group lies in its wise arrangement of human resource. Successors inherit ideas and approaches from the forerunners and carry on their research. in this course, managers must be able to figure out whether the research is promising to carry out and which direction should the research develop to. Thirdly, leadership is the precondition of a success group. There is no denying that many talented researchers are straightforward and arrogant. They spend their wisdom in dealing with data and ideas, paid little attention to human interaction and communication. Thus, how to maintain a harmonious atmosphere in which researchers can fluently cooperation with each other is a big problem which requires high level of leadership.