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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

The field that provides this kind of know-how is called ethics. This means that ethics is serious business. Ethical dilemmas are at least as hard to resolve as engineering problems, and at least as urgent, particularly in our complex and fast-moving world. When does pharmaceutical pricing become price gouging?

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Don't Forget To Take Your Happy Pill

Terry Starbucker

No, not the pharmaceutical kind. This pill is invisible, and sits on our bed stands every morning, waiting for us to pop it into our brain. Tweet This Post Tagged as: happiness Leave a Comment { 1 trackback } TLW 016: Ethics? What ethics? I forgot to take my happy pills. And oh yes, please, repeat as necessary.

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The Ethical Complications Of Electronic Pills

The Horizons Tracker

The growth in electronic medicines offers significant potential to better monitor the effectiveness of treatments, but new research from the University of Copenhagen also highlights the ethical and legal complications the technology brings. New capabilities. There are also issues surrounding the ownership of the patient’s data.

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Pfizer’s Straight Talk on Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

Pfizer, the multinational pharmaceutical giant, has become increasingly intentional about shaping its culture. Leading a global business means managing operations in some nations where meeting high ethical standards is more challenging given the prevalence of corruption in the local culture.

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When Leadership Coaching Works (And When It Doesn't)

Marshall Goldsmith

One pharmaceutical company called and asked me to coach "Dr. Second, when leaders commit an ethical violation they should be fired - not coached. It only takes one ethical violation to ruin the reputation of an otherwise outstanding company. Are the clients' issues behavioral? I asked, "What is his problem?"

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Leaders Make Values Visible

Marshall Goldsmith

I was shown a wonderful video on Enron’s ethics and integrity. It was one of the most smoothly professional presentations on ethics and values that I have ever seen. The pharmaceutical company is famous for its Credo, which was written many years ago and reflected the sincere values of the leaders of the company at that time.

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Don’t Coach Integrity Violations – Fire Them!

Marshall Goldsmith

For example, a pharmaceutical company called me recently. The second question I ask is: are the client’s issues integrity or ethical issues? It was about people who, instead of being fired for ethics violations, got coaches. Behavioral coaching only helps if a person has behavioral issues. I said, “What’s his problem?”