Leading Blog

AUGUST 29, 2018

The problem is with the Mexicans, or the Muslims, or the banks, or the police, or the pharmaceutical companies.” He is the founder of SkyBridge Associates , a company that designs, creates, and leads the executive peer networks that leaders need to build authentic relationships and share valuable insights.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 17, 2023

To explore how collaborative leadership works in practice, we talked to Emma Bould CMgr FCMI, who has spent her career in engineering leadership roles. The amount of leadership training you get in the military is huge ,” she says, “because when you’re placed in an operational role, you have to perform.”

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 1, 2017

Peter Drucker instilled this short phrase in me, “Your mission statement should fit on a T-Shirt,” as he did with so many others, and it has guided my career for many decades. Today, most people who call themselves executive coaches are coaches in the area of leadership behavior. I replied, “Interesting possibility.

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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.

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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: What are the biggest challenges executives supporting pay equity for women and minorities currently face? ? . colleagues.

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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). But as veterans of the U.S.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Teaches leadership to executives and emerging leaders around the world. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Global Debt Registry (MHR). Corporate Executives. Former Executive VP and Head of Strategy & Transformation at TMB Bank.

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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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Businesses with a commitment to hiring former service men and women are attending career fairs dedicated to veterans and building talent communities for veteran candidates. Bill Sebra is Chief Operations Executive at Korn Ferry Futurestep. About the Author. You just finished reading Veterans Among the Best Civilian Leaders !

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2016

But there are lessons anyone can draw from what he and others have done to revive their careers, whether after a serious criminal misstep or a different sort of major mistake. Career Transitions. Leaving a Stable Job to Create Your Dream Career. A client we worked with, a senior pharmaceutical VP, was accused of violating U.S.

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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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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. “ You get almost nothing without going through some kind of pain, unless you win a lottery.”, replied the man who was himself a fitness freak. He neither had space nor money to start out.

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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. It would be a shame if they did.

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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

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

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

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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Here’s the process I use in my executive coaching practice: Mindset shifts. Those who choose to make this transition need a clear vision of why they are stretching to develop a new mindset and skill set in the middle of an already established and successful career.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

But we would argue that credibility may also be signaled to important external stakeholders — future employees, patients, the pharmaceutical industry, donors, and so on. Core to the curriculum is emotional intelligence (with 360-degree feedback and executive coaching), teambuilding, conflict resolution, and situational leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

The executive team of a pharmaceutical company knew well in advance that it was facing the loss of patent exclusivity for a particular drug, which would significantly reduce sales revenue in the coming year. 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

APRIL 8, 2011

Mao Zedong may have famously proclaimed that "women hold up half the sky," but many of today's Chinese career women feel their high-flying ambitions have feet of clay. Yeah, we hold up half the sky," recently quipped a female senior manager for a multinational pharmaceutical company, "but there are 5,000 years of history dragging us back.".

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

Recruited by a pharmaceutical firm he rose quickly through the ranks, joining the executive team in record time. With nowhere further to go, he revealed the inadequacy he had been so anxious to conceal, perversely sabotaging his own career in order to fulfill his belief that he wasn’t up to the top job.

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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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Cooperperson

OCTOBER 21, 2019

By the grace of God and connecting with generous people, Ellen got to the chairman of Merck Sharp & Dohme, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. A must read for anybody looking for success in either their personal life or career. Execution is what matters. ” -Tracy Davis. Ideas are cheap.

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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

MARCH 14, 2017

In a recent Gallup poll , the pharmaceutical industry was the most widely disliked private industry, ranking even lower than lawyers. While virtually all pharma companies say they encourage risk, in reality the failure of individual drug-development programs frequently results in career damage or even job loss for the research teams involved.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Although long ignored, these middle management positions have become increasingly recognized as critical to executing a company’s strategy. In sales-driven companies (think pharmaceuticals and industrial equipment), they are often field sales managers who direct dozens of salespeople in the highest-volume regions.

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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. This needs to change.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

She recommends explaining your interest in terms of your career objectives.” She talked about new projects she could execute. Today she is a career adviser and hiring manager at resumecompanion.com. ” One day he interviewed for a marketing support job at a pharmaceutical company.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We don’t see news headlines that say, “Low-risk approach forces local business to file for bankruptcy,” or, “Stunningly conservative move pushes global pharmaceutical company to the brink of failure,” or “Man retires after a mediocre career and feels painful remorse for never having laid anything on the line.”.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Consequently, you find yourself unable to respond to a mental, psychological, or emotional challenge, and you fail to execute in the critical moment. Even Experienced Executives Avoid Conflict. One day, Alvin approaches Manuel and tells him he wants to make a major career shift. Many people experience this at work. Amit Maimon.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. Both boards are on to a good start — demonstrating that when a firm builds a board using a rigorous assessment of the qualities it needs to carry out its governance task, rather than personal networks, the board is better equipped to execute its functions.

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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 10, 2018

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. As Tara (Executive Vice President, consumer products) told us, “You stand out more. Currently, they make up 12.7% of the U.S. corporations.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Yet here is the challenge you face as a senior executive: You cannot manage your knowledge workers in the traditional and intrusive way you might have done with manual workers. (We detail this process in our HBR article, " Make Time for the Work That Matters."). Knowledge workers own the means of production — their brains.

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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. Japanese pharmaceutical Eisai used them to improve care for Alzheimer’s patients. The conversation would be neither bottom-up nor top down.

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