Leading Blog

AUGUST 14, 2018

Yu examines pharmaceutical companies like Novartis and the soap company P&G to see how they moved across knowledge disciplines to leverage or create new knowledge on how their product was made. Corporate leaders need to absorb career risks…. Principle 2: Acquire and cultivate new knowledge disciplines.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

After hiring an employee , we invest in them to ensure that their skills are being developed so they can have a long, successful career here at Genentech. The HR Digest: What would you say is your specific contribution to closing the leadership gap that exists in STEM fields? In 2020 alone, Genentech gave $6.3M

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 1, 2017

Peter Drucker instilled this short phrase in me, “Your mission statement should fit on a T-Shirt,” as he did with so many others, and it has guided my career for many decades. Today, most people who call themselves executive coaches are coaches in the area of leadership behavior. I replied, “Interesting possibility.

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Chart Your Course

APRIL 6, 2015

employees who use the career community website. Pharmaceutical and biotechnology make up the second-largest group with three representatives: Genentech, Amgen and Pfizer. The post Top 25 Companies for Pay and Perks (USA Today) appeared first on Leadership Keynote Speaker and DISC Training. Top industries in the top 25.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 6, 2022

Many more people are searching beyond a job or career to find a calling. ” These shifts have profound implications for leadership and culture. ” Pharmaceutical company: “ Preserving and improving human life.” Creating leadership energy is an inside job. We want to make a difference.

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Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 26, 2019

Our series of industry trend research reports — created using our flagship 360-assessment tool, Benchmarks® for Managers — shows that great similarities exist among leaders across industries including healthcare, pharmaceutical, financial, tech, energy, and government (civilian). Army Leadership Trend Report.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 17, 2023

To explore how collaborative leadership works in practice, we talked to Emma Bould CMgr FCMI, who has spent her career in engineering leadership roles. The amount of leadership training you get in the military is huge ,” she says, “because when you’re placed in an operational role, you have to perform.”

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Chartered Manager status is such a fantastic fit for our management and leadership programme,” she says. Indeed, CMI now plays a key role in the bespoke management and leadership programme as part of the HR strategy and people plan that Jeanette created to help drive change. “We

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QAspire

JANUARY 24, 2010

He was a marketing executive with a large pharmaceutical company when he decided to pursue his calling and start a fitness center. Life Lesson on Endurance Other Links to this Post QAspire Blog - Quality, Management, Leadership & Life! “ You get almost nothing without going through some kind of pain, unless you win a lottery.”,

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Having joined the world’s largest pharmaceutical company, she is now out to raise the bar for human resources leadership across the organization. The HR Digest: Under your leadership, Pfizer continues to make great strides in the field of diversity and inclusion (D&I). The HR Digest: What is diversity to you? colleagues.

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Mills Scofield

MAY 5, 2015

They are leading global airline, chemical, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and financial companies, among others. History, philosophy, sociology, or any liberal arts degree will not prevent me from pursuing a career in business. Even though they don’t directly align with my career aspirations, they will not take me out of the game.

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Mills Scofield

MAY 5, 2015

They are leading global airline, chemical, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and financial companies, among others. History, philosophy, sociology, or any liberal arts degree will not prevent me from pursuing a career in business. Even though they don’t directly align with my career aspirations, they will not take me out of the game.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Since founding the Human Diver in 2016, Gareth has given risk training to a wide variety of organisations, from oil and gas and construction to pharmaceuticals and software. Image: Gareth Lock Train hard, fight easy Gareth also has a 25-year RAF career behind him. I often see more lessons identified than lessons actually learned.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

I learned the critical importance of networking, and discovered my natural aversion to it, early in my career. That night, because of the small turnout, I had the pleasure and advantage of engaging in one-on-one conversations with some of the company's top executives, an experience that would prove crucially important in advancing my career.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

People of color too often feel that they have to hide their true selves at work, according to "Vaulting the Color Bar: How Sponsorship Levers Multicultural Professionals into Leadership," a new research report from the Center for Talent Innovation. Notes a focus group participant, "You start to be less of who you are. You start tiptoeing."

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Having a strong domestic manufacturing base is vital to the United States maintaining its world leadership in innovation. Since joining the Harvard Business School in 2007 (after a long career at IBM, Kodak, Silicon Graphics, and other companies), I have visited hundreds of factories. to Asia.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

A lot of talented people grapple with the disruption of having to switch jobs or careers and figuring out how their current profession’s skills can be applied in a fulfilling new way. Since then, many friends and strangers have sought my advice about career paths outside of newspaper journalism. Consider the legal field.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. It still doesn't seem necessary to be a COO in order to take over as CEO, though.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

When he questioned the mine leadership team he was told, “We’ve heard this story before but we produce too much ore for the company to really shut us down.”. Leadership Managing people Organizational culture' Facts and data are usually open to interpretation, and people have different underlying criteria for how they analyze them.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

Black women continue to be sorely underrepresented in leadership roles in corporate America. We sought to understand the barriers they faced, their strategies for ascending through the organization, and the tools they used to manage significant organizational change efforts and navigate career risks. Currently, they make up 12.7%

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Doctors were once viewed as ill-prepared for leadership roles because their selection and training led them to become “heroic lone healers.” The emphasis on patient-centered care and efficiency in the delivery of clinical outcomes means that physicians are now being prepared for leadership. ” But this is changing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2014

Take pharmaceuticals. For example, as blockbuster drug patents expire, the pharmaceutical companies are looking for more nuanced ways to build competitive advantage by focusing on specialties or building scale in over-the-counter medicines. Leadership Mergers & Acquisitions Strategy' Take the Novartis-GSK deals.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Roger, a vice president of sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry, was one such Pleaser. While he longed to advance in his career, Roger had developed a bad habit of avoiding conflict. As a result, many Pleasers grow up hungry for validation and hard-wired to take care of others.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company. Making the leap to a new career curve is a bold idea that also needs to be sold, and the importance of mitigating risk for the key decisionmaker — the prospective employer — holds true.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 27, 2020

Ones that would impact the lives and careers of their employees. I believe that the way forward is to focus on leadership accountability. At a personal level, you will need to embrace leadership accountability. This means you will need to step up and demonstrate personal ownership for your leadership role.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly has created a crowdsourcing platform called InnoCentive , through which outside innovators are paid to solve vexing problems the company faces. Early in my career, when I walked into a networking event I was convinced that I was the only one worried about making small talk with strangers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

In a recent Gallup poll , the pharmaceutical industry was the most widely disliked private industry, ranking even lower than lawyers. In response to findings from employee surveys and interviews, Vivek and his leadership team rolled out steps aimed at continuing to foster innovation while defusing latent tensions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. We found that, for pharmaceutical industry CEOs, there is a statistically significant relationship between a CEO’s specialist background and the firm’s performance.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

Let’s look at a few examples of powerful summaries: “Pharmaceutical marketing executive with 20 years of experience creating commercial infrastructures, growing brands, and optimizing product value throughout launch, re-launch, and sunset life cycles across all customer segments—payers, physicians, and patients.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

The executives came from a wide array of industries, including financial services, pharmaceuticals, and media. The thirties are often characterized by intense activity to establish the foundation for a successful career; this involves mastering rules that win approval. The average coaching engagement lasted six to 12 months.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

As important as these leadership skills are, just as important to the leadership transition is learning to let go of old ways of thinking, and relaxing into the role. A successful leadership transition depends on substantial cognitive restructuring. This positive mindset is an essential starting point. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Having managed or worked with clinical leaders in care-delivery organizations, the pharmaceutical industry, and government, I have observed three skills that are critical to the success of doctors and nurses as they make the transition to management: Operations management and execution. People leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Some pharmaceutical scientists will spend an entire career working on drug development without a single one of their products reaching the market. Tolerance of Failure. It is axiomatic that successful innovation requires tolerance of failure. Advertising agency Grey has a Heroic Failure award in similar vein.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Despite having solid internal anti-corruption rules in place, the pharmaceutical giant wound up facing criminal investigations for bribing doctors and foreign officials , eventually paying a $489 million fine. These practices continued under executive leadership that stifled disagreement with superiors and, all told, led to $1.2

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Those factors do play important roles, but the most important thing driving America’s success has been its unparalleled scientific leadership. In the pharmaceutical industry, the monitoring process can be incredibly elaborate. Return on this investment is high, estimated to be anywhere from 20% to 40%.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

On average, one of them will be sexually harassed during the next 4 years, before she has even begun her career as a physician’ ” The efforts of many healthcare organizations and medical centers tend to go little further than avoiding litigation. Leadership. This needs to change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2015

“But there’s an art to the ask,” says Diana Faison, a partner with leadership development firm Flynn Heath Holt Leadership. What the Experts Say. It can be difficult to approach your manager for a raise. “You want to be able to demonstrate how you add value and how you’ve made a difference to the company.”

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