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. Successful executives often exhibit a bias for action. Stop the experimentation process and fully commit to an execution strategy.

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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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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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Chart Your Course

APRIL 6, 2015

employees who use the career community website. Pay is a hot topic, cropping up in all sorts of discussions — from the fast-food industry to state minimum wage laws and speculation about the why The New York Times recently fired its first woman executive editor. Top industries in the top 25. Costco, at No. Procter & Gamble.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Eric, 33, a high-potential vice president at a financial services firm, was elated to be selected by his supervisors to receive executive coaching. Frances, an executive in her forties, entered coaching after being passed over for a promotion that went to her more vocal, visible male colleague.

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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! replied the man who was himself a fitness freak. Don’t Kill It!

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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. Execute fast.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Approaching a meeting with the CEO of his organization, one of my culture clients (a senior executive of a major retailer) said, “I’m going to ask him whether he thinks we are a power-driven company, a profit-driven company, or a purpose-driven company.” Based on these criteria, I see pharmaceutical companies as primarily profit-driven.

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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. I was a new college graduate working in the strategic planning division of a $10 billion company, and our business unit had been invited to a retirement party for one of the top executives.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

That's the blunt response from one African-American executive to a dilemma that dogs many people of color in American workplaces: Even as multicultural fluency is increasingly prized in today's global business environment, the very people who represent that diversity feel shut out. My style is direct," says one senior executive. "In

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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

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

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. Here’s the process I use in my executive coaching practice: Mindset shifts. This positive mindset is an essential starting point. Insight Center.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

The answers may not be as self-evident as many executives think. Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks. Most COOs in Europe are seasoned executives; they were 48 years old, on average, when they were appointed.

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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

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 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. Do the C-suite executives emphasize a win-at-all-costs mentality? If there is a disconnect, that is a red flag.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

Black women continue to be sorely underrepresented in leadership roles in corporate America. of senior management and executive roles of S&P 500 firms, 2.2% We conducted in-depth interviews with 59 black women executives who have occupied senior-level positions in U.S. Currently, they make up 12.7% of the U.S. corporations.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Involving staff in conceiving, designing, and implementing the change would result in a course of action that was more fit-to-purpose and more likely to be well executed. Leadership would shape the conversation to ensure proposals were strategically on-point. The conversation would be neither bottom-up nor top down.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

So most executives manage it according to their intuition. What the chart shows is that while we tend to think that leadership matters most to motivation, other processes can have an even bigger impact. The third most sensitive element is the career ladder in an organization. 2) Purpose: What impact did I have this week?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company. This led to the HR VP brokering a meeting with the CEO and an invitation to make a formal presentation to the Executive Committee. Executing on Innovation. An HBR Insight Center.

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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 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

MAY 17, 2016

He had started his career in one of those jobs, as a country manager, and worked his way up. Eighty-five percent of executives say that the greatest barriers to achieving their growth objectives lie inside their own four walls, according to research by Bain & Company. ” Today, he confessed, “it is the worst job.”

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