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Post Layoff – To Take A Lower Salary or Not

Women on Business

My plan was to make a career transition and I had accepted the fact that I’d probably have to take a short term pay cut from my pharmaceutical sales job to transition into marketing with a higher long term salary potential. For most laid off job seekers, however, this new normal is a bitter pill to swallow and a difficult reality to accept.

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Bringing Science To Summer

The Horizons Tracker

One of the more interesting projects in this field is undertaken by pharmaceutical giant GSK, who offer their GSK Science in the Summer program to 2nd-6th graders to help engage them in STEM-related topics. The project focuses on exciting minority and vulnerable students, including migrants and homeless youngsters.

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3 Ways to Confront Economic Adversity in 2011

Coaching Tip

Nevertheless, politicians, business leaders and informed citizens can hurry the process along and put America back at the top of its economic game by understanding the value of time & patience, deregulation and entrepreneurship. . Time and Patience. Please visit www.powerofadversity.net or www.weatherchem.com for more information.

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No Pain, No Gain. Life Lesson on Endurance

QAspire

He was a marketing executive with a large pharmaceutical company when he decided to pursue his calling and start a fitness center. He went through a painful process of starting up, getting space on lease and getting some funding from the bank to get some basic equipments. replied the man who was himself a fitness freak.

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Why The Health Care Reform Debate Makes Me Sick

The Recovering Engineer

In that post, I listed a number of things common to the political process that are terrible examples of how to behave when you are really trying to solve a problem or resolve a conflict. I am, though, a person who can observe the process and see how the current discussion has virtually no hope of arriving at a good conclusion.

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Why The Health Care Reform Debate Makes Me Sick

The Recovering Engineer

In that post, I listed a number of things common to the political process that are terrible examples of how to behave when you are really trying to solve a problem or resolve a conflict. I am, though, a person who can observe the process and see how the current discussion has virtually no hope of arriving at a good conclusion.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

Medium-term value drivers look forward to indicate whether a company can maintain and improve its revenue growth and ROIC over the next one to five years (or longer for companies, such as pharmaceutical manufacturers, that have long product cycles). Copyright (c) 2011. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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