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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.” For whom do they do it?

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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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Moderna v. Pfizer: What the Patent Infringement Suit Means for Biotech

Harvard Business Review

After an unusual period of cooperation, drug companies are suing each other again.

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A Simple Workaround to Overcome the Bureaucratic Mindset

Tanveer Naseer

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Are You Using Dialects To Develop Your Employees’ Skills? You’ll be glad you did.

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How We Built a New Company Culture

Harvard Business Review

I learned this while leading a turnaround of NPS Pharmaceuticals , a biotechnology company that now specializes in creating treatments for rare diseases. from that of a fully integrated pharmaceutical company into a company that retained key technical expertise (e.g., Accordingly, I transformed the business model ?

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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.