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.

Benchmarking 57

Benchmarking Leadership Bottom-up Leadership Pipeline 57

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

What’s more, military personnel have soft skills that the private sector also values, problem solving, team building, crisis management, dealing with ambiguity, collaboration, and creative thinking among them.

Agility 50

Agility Pharmaceuticals Self-aware Crisis Management 50

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. You and Your Team Series. Career Transitions. Leaving a Stable Job to Create Your Dream Career. Overlay History With Your Story. Rebecca Knight.

Career 8

Career Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing Bond 8

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. What started as a two member team was now a successful fitness center running round the clock with a number of trained instructors and some very good facilities. He neither had space nor money to start out.

Directory 82

Directory Blog Pharmaceuticals Quality 82

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. Former HR director with Pepsi Central Eastern Europe, and gained HR expertise at PLIVA Pharmaceutical Company (now part of Teva Group).

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Based on these criteria, I see pharmaceutical companies as primarily profit-driven. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. exhibits behavior that can be seen as self-serving and manipulative. ?

Blanchard 195

Blanchard Pharmaceuticals Consultative Retail 195

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 27, 2020

Ones that would impact the lives and careers of their employees. You will need to build truly accountable teams. The top two challenges that came out on the top of their list was dealing with ambiguity and uncertainty and coming to the realization that they would have to make some difficult business decisions. But there is more.

Leadership 258

Leadership Uncertainty Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 258

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

Avoid generic terms such as results-driven , proven track record , excellent communication skills , team player. Lead global marketing and commercial operations teams with P&Ls up to $2B.” For much more detail about how to write a LinkedIn summary, read How to Use Your LinkedIn Profile to Power a Career Transition.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Retail Long-term Industry 8

The Practical Leader

APRIL 6, 2022

Many more people are searching beyond a job or career to find a calling. ” Pharmaceutical company: “ Preserving and improving human life.” Effective leaders rally people throughout their organizations or teams, customers, suppliers, strategic partners, shareholders, and anyone else that can help around a cause.

Mintzberg 111

Mintzberg Pharmaceuticals Energy McKinsey 111

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

I learned the critical importance of networking, and discovered my natural aversion to it, early in my career. That night, because of the small turnout, I had the pleasure and advantage of engaging in one-on-one conversations with some of the company's top executives, an experience that would prove crucially important in advancing my career.

Pharmaceuticals 18

Pharmaceuticals Conference Learning-by-Doing Strategic Planning 18

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.”. Despite not having sufficient new products to replace these losses, the team delayed making commensurate cost reductions, with each manager saying that their people were indispensable.

Pharmaceuticals 11

Pharmaceuticals Discount Learning-by-Doing Team 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. The COO's role, we find, is driven by three factors: the company's strategy, the composition of the executive team, and the relationships between the members of the top team.

COO 11

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

You and Your Team Series. 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. Learning to Learn. Erika Andersen. You Can Learn and Get Work Done at the Same Time. Liane Davey. Monique Valcour. And it works!

How To 13

How To Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing Tips 13

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. Medical care is one of the few sectors where lack of teamwork might actually cost lives, yet physicians are not trained to be team players.

Management 14

Management 360-Degree Feedback Mayo Training 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

His boss wanted him to be a more motivating leader to his team. In coaching, while Eric focused on learning ways to motivate the talent on his team, he didn’t address deeper issues, like his perfectionism, that could hold him back in the long run. This meant he was being groomed for ascendance.

Execution 13

Execution 360-Degree Feedback Executive Coaching Sample 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Otherwise positive and productive team members begin to dread coming to work, and the group's best thinking gets siphoned off the company's mission as everyone scrambles to stay out of the bully's crosshairs. Roger, a vice president of sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry, was one such Pleaser.

Rogers 14

Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 14

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. Setting and defining strategy.

Execution 8

Execution Skills Health Care Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

For the pharmaceutical industry to remain financially viable, for example, we need scientists who can not only develop new life-saving medicines, but who can do it in a time- and cost-efficient manner. They are also poorly equipped to work effectively in a dynamic team setting where the flow of ideas is open and constant.

Education 11

Education Creativity How To Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

You and Your Team Series. Often, our discomfort can’t be attributed to a specific source; it is simply a result of a career mismatch. Such was the case when I was working a grueling pharmaceutical sales job. You are the architect of your career and your life. More on that later.). Turning Stress into an Asset.

Stress 8

Stress Human Resources Pharmaceuticals Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last year Dina, a CEO I’d been working with, felt that leaders on her team were playing it too safe. She kicked off her October management team meeting, which I was attending, by reading the following passage from my book: The dangers of taking too much risk are very clear. At first the team didn’t know what to do with it.

COO 8

COO Short-term CFO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

arm of pharmaceuticals manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim (BIPI). Among the first 100 participants: BIPI's CEO, who was matched with a young member of one of the brand marketing teams. "A But, as we all know, bridging interdepartmental chasms is far easier said than done. Some people are actively using it to network," reports Tan.

Company 8

Company Pharmaceuticals Health Care Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

” You and Your Team Series. How Self-Managed Teams Can Resolve Conflict. One day, Alvin approaches Manuel and tells him he wants to make a major career shift. ” Saying “no” is tough to do, especially when trying to demonstrate you are hardworking and a team player. Joel Garfinkle. Amit Maimon.

EVA 8

EVA How To Hotels Committee 8

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.

Cost-Benefit Analysis 8

Cost-Benefit Analysis Pharmaceuticals CEO Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Employees can manage their own careers and schedules, using on-line benefits management, job posting systems, training, email, scheduling, and so forth. A pharmaceutical company did something similar for safety scientists. No one knows better than the users themselves what they need. One has been around a long time.

Document 14

Document Information Management Pharmaceuticals Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Japanese pharmaceutical Eisai used them to improve care for Alzheimer’s patients. Convinced, the library’s management team created three innovation communities with each one focusing on a core library function: circulation, collections, and reference. Each team came up with two to three of these “options statements.”

Library 8

Library Strategy Reference Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

Since how you leave your current job can be as important to your career as how you perform in the next one, you need to know the answers to these questions. Priscilla Claman, president of Career Strategies, Inc., Priscilla Claman, president of Career Strategies, Inc., What the Experts Say. Leave on good terms.

How To 14

How To Reference Flextime Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. He appointed a special team to create an objective, transparent method for selecting the directors. After reviewing the roles and responsibilities of each board and the natures of the new businesses, the team derived lists of the skills each board needed.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

If that''s what your team can achieve without you, just imagine what they might do with your support. For example, a few years ago the top executive team at UBS Wealth Management realized that the biggest constraint on their future growth was their cumbersome and conservative budgeting process.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Peer Review Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

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. We’re glad he’s on call and on our team.” High-potential future leaders.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

For over a decade, students in my classes, as well as thousands of employees in hundreds of companies, have found that three steps make it possible for men to overcome the obstacles and lean in more at home in ways that, at the same time, benefit their careers. What''s the problem? Your spouse isn''t happy with your involvement?

Delegation 8

Delegation Commitment Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 8

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Policies How To Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

You can measure your ToMo or your team’s ToMo using a survey on our site. The Chief Talent Officer at UCB Pharmaceuticals told us how he recently started inviting patients to executive meetings, so the people making decisions can see how their work makes a difference. Explaining the why behind the work of your team.

Motivation 8

Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2015

Pitch your raise as not only recognition for past achievements, but also tacit acknowledgment that you are a dedicated team player committed to growing with the company. At best, you’ll turn the conversation adversarial; at worse, you’ll paint yourself into a corner if you don’t get the raise. Look forward, not backward.

How To 8

How To Case Study Restructuring Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. We found that, for pharmaceutical industry CEOs, there is a statistically significant relationship between a CEO’s specialist background and the firm’s performance.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company. Making the leap to a new career curve is a bold idea that also needs to be sold, and the importance of mitigating risk for the key decisionmaker — the prospective employer — holds true.

Innovation 10

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

In the pharmaceutical industry, the monitoring process can be incredibly elaborate. Applied science, however, requires execution by a cross-disciplinary team and you need to constantly make decisions about time and resources, taking into account not only probability of success, but also opportunity cost.”

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Competitive Advantage Venture Funding 8