Conflicts of interest
According to Wikipedia, a Conflict of Interest is a situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple interests, financial or otherwise, and serving one interest could involve working against another. This is usually presented in the context of financial or family-based relationships, but there is plenty more. This chapter is not about financial/family/etc. topics, but things that you might not read about other places.
In short, Do the interests of the supervisor and junior researcher align? As was discussed in Survivorship bias, group leaders are not representative of the careers of most junior researchers. Even without this, there are many times when what is best for the supervisor isn’t what is best for the person being supervised.
Publications for group leader vs publications for junior researcher
Group leader wants a pattern of groundbreaking results.
Yet most junior researchers just need to get things out.
Exclusive focus on publications
Should a group leader always advise focusing on publications (since that’s what benefits themselves) when rounding out one’s skills could be more useful for the average person?