Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 8, 2017

Guest post from Amy Blankson: In 2013, the National Center for Biotechnology Information reported that the average attention span of a human has dropped to a mere eight seconds , one second behind that of a goldfish. If you can’t step away from technology completely during work, consider limiting how often you check email.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. Let us give you our definition of what it means to be a founder: Playing a central role in starting and managing an initiative that will have impact (preferably visible and large) on an organization or the broader world. Innovation Capital.

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The Idolbuster

JANUARY 15, 2013

I heard a cautionary tale from “George” the former VP of marketing at a mid-sized biotechnology company about how a bogus forecast helped propagate a disaster. Product development is always needed to make a new technology robust enough to work consistently in customer hands. Bad management? I cringed when I heard the story.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Are You Fitting Employee Personality Into Your Leadership Puzzle?

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

However, the research also highlights the significance of diverse educational, industrial, and organizational backgrounds among managers and board members in fostering innovation in research and development (R&D), thereby generating both economic and social value. ”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. And biotechnology and medical devices are among the leading areas for venture capital funding. The first lays the blame at the door of the government.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Organizations invest billions annually on a success curriculum known as "leadership development," which ends up leaving so much on the table. In other words, what if cultivating a successful inner life was front and center on the leadership agenda? The data-obsessed Pierce commissioned a third path impact report on PEP.

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