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Make Meaningful Work as Important as Results

Lead Change Blog

A balance of meaning and results enables players to act from inspiration and cooperation, not purely from competition. The second example, from a pharmaceutical company, states their purpose is “to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases.”

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Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied

Leading Blog

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. As P&G chairman William Cooper Proctor said in 1933, “This [synthetic detergent] may ruin the soap business.

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To Innovate in a Big Company, Don’t Think “Us Against Them”

Harvard Business Review

I often hear this question when I visit companies and speak about how to make an innovative idea less terrifying to high level executives. There are plenty of pundits arguing that big companies need to innovate, and pointing out that it is difficult to do so. Have you actually seen this done?”. The skepticism is warranted.

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Is the Cost of Innovation Falling?

Harvard Business Review

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation. Some of this may just be the product of the high regulatory costs in pharmaceuticals, but research by Harvard's F.M.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

We recently visited the brand-new R&D lab of Dr Reddy's , one of India's leading pharmaceutical firms. Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines.

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How to Give the Same Talk to Different Audiences

Harvard Business Review

With those goals in mind, you can choose which modules from your standard presentation to include, and whether you need to develop bespoke material to augment it. For instance, one pharmaceutical company that booked me for a keynote last year wanted me to incorporate elements of a talk on innovation that I frequently give.

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You Need a Community, Not a Network

Harvard Business Review

When networks develop into communities, the results can be powerful. Look at the accomplishments of Wikipedia contributors, open-source software developers who find and fix bugs in Linux, or doctors who help each another with difficult diagnoses as part of the Sermo social network.