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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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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.” Again, they are not specific.

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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 Fitting Employee Personality Into Your Leadership Puzzle?

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

Harvard Business Review

Take the case of Janssen, the pharmaceuticals arm of Johnson & Johnson, which created a breakthrough innovative program called Immersion. Creating a spirit of internal cooperation and cohesion has been crucial. There are plenty of pundits arguing that big companies need to innovate, and pointing out that it is difficult to do so.

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You Need a Community, Not a Network

Harvard Business Review

As Linda Hill and her colleagues have described, the company needed expert knowledge as it navigated the technically and ethically challenging waters of pharmaceutical development and marketing. But the specialist law firms that it employed rarely cooperated with one another or even shared much information.

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How Meditation Benefits CEOs

Harvard Business Review

He says he’s seeing a growing interest among leaders in meditation as a way to build leadership skills – and achieve business goals. Chirag Patel, CEO of Amneal Pharmaceuticals and Ernst & Young 2011 Entrepreneur of the Year, credits meditation with helping him feel more connected to his clients.

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