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Leadership Lessons from Pfizer-BioNTech’s Vaccine Development

The Practical Leader

Serving People, Not Pushing Products – “throughout my career…I have encouraged the entire organization to adopt a patient-first mentality, measuring outcomes by people served rather than drugs sold.” ” Throughout his career, Bourla hung pictures of patients on walls of their buildings around the world.

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Viral Engagement on a Global Scale

Strategy Driven

But the problem is not with financial capital — it’s human capital, where too many companies are missing a key component of the growth equation. A foundational study by James Fowler and Nicholas Christakis out of the University of California and Harvard, respectively, demonstrated that cooperation spreads from person to person.

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Former Goldman Sachs Partner Edith Cooper: Recruit, Retain, Mentor

Harvard Business Review

What we can learn from Goldman’s former head of Human Capital Management about addressing race at work and retention strategies.

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The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Joel Garfinkle , from Career Advancement Blog , picked 3 Ways to Avoid Burnout in Today’s High-Pressure Work Environment. " Mark Stelzner , from inflexionadvisors , picked 5 Career Lessons From The Road. "I In one of his most widely read and tweeted posts, Randy shares five leadership lessons from the life and career of Armstrong.".

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Many Employees Have a Mid-Career Crisis. Here’s How Employers Can Help

Harvard Business Review

Plenty of media coverage — and companies’ attention — is devoted to employees at the beginning and end of their careers, at least in my experience. What about the wide swath of employees who are in the middle of their careers? For many managers, the problem is seeing those employees through to the other side.

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To Address Gender Bias at Your Company, Start with Teams

Harvard Business Review

Real diversity efforts require organizations to address the social patterns that stifle women’s careers, not just the symptoms that result from them. These efforts, and the tens of millions of dollars spent on them, are treating symptoms.

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Innovating Your Way Out Of The Resource Curse

The Horizons Tracker

Nugent, and Hoda Selim, explores the topic through the particular lens of the six Arab nations that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council. Both Sweden and Denmark, for instance, score very highly for the quality of institutions, the market conditions for startups and the quality of human capital.