N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

One of our pharmaceutical clients was recently recognized for successfully executing his company’s strategy and told us: “If I had to do it over again, I would have had the human resources organization intimately involved much sooner to ensure that our organization and people were prepared to deliver. That is the good news.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Before the energy conglomerate’s collapse in 2001, I had the opportunity to review Enron’s values. The pharmaceutical company is famous for its Credo, which was written many years ago and reflected the sincere values of the leaders of the company at that time. Enron is a great example.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 27, 2020

I believe that the way forward is to focus on leadership accountability. At a personal level, you will need to embrace leadership accountability. This means you will need to step up and demonstrate personal ownership for your leadership role. Senior leaders will need to define clear leadership expectations for all their leaders.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 13, 2018

It was inconceivable to him that a leadership team could have fun together. It takes effort, energy and time. A few years back, I coached a national pharmaceutical team with distinct geographies. Most readily agreed, however Heinz, one of the leaders, raised his hand and promptly admonished, “Fun? How can we have fun?

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Just remember… Talk may be cheap, but it’s also priceless when it comes to building camaraderie, respect, energy – and yes, even love – throughout your workplace, in both good times and bad. Filed under: Integrity , Leadership , Purpose , Team Building , Trust Tagged: | Albert J.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 6, 2022

” These shifts have profound implications for leadership and culture. ” Pharmaceutical company: “ Preserving and improving human life.” A purposeless leader or leadership team without a life force might fool some of the people some of the time, but they’ll never fool all the people for long.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

I went on to discover an array of strategies introverts can use, ultimately writing "The Introvert's Guide to Success in Business and Leadership". I went on to run a $750 million business and negotiate pharmaceutical contracts with top global companies, all in a way that worked effectively with my introverted preferences.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

I found myself reflecting on this recently while speaking with two business leaders in one of the world’s great pharmaceutical companies. It seems to me that this emphasis on authenticity is an important counterbalance to earlier assumptions that people gained leadership powers by dint of titles or positions in hierarchies.

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Drucker Diversity Pharmaceuticals Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

I recently conducted a study of 56 randomly selected companies involved in major change and innovation efforts in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Leadership development Leadership transitions Managing people'

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Middle Management Management Automotive Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Where was its leadership bench? Why are so many companies struggling with a crisis of their leadership bench? food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The nay-sayers, on the other hand, can cite the passionately defended view of the pharmaceutical industry that the cost of discovering innovative disease-curing molecules has been rising crazily — the basis for perennial campaigns for stronger intellectual property rights to safeguard pharma investments.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The factory floor at Pittsburgh’s Aquion Energy doesn’t look much like the steel mills that once populated this Rust Belt city. This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Aquion is a modern success story for American industry.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

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. The more responsible participants feel, the more energy and drive they’ll offer — and the better they’ll feel about participating.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The most effective campaigns stir up “hot” emotions in people (pride and anger are especially effective) and then channel that energy and passion into “cool” (clear and step-wise) actions. Change management Customer service Informal leadership' Connect people and cascade excellence.

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Case Study Pharmaceuticals Airlines Hotels 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

Most of us think of biotech as the province of multinational pharmaceutical corporations and well-funded ventures, but the founders of BioCurious believe (as they say in their mission statement) "that innovations in biology should be accessible, affordable, and open to everyone." Socialize your underused assets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

For example, a study of a multinational pharmaceutical company revealed that leaders in its U.S. One emergent use of social media is a new sort of leadership mind map, i.e., a model of the CEO’s key ideas accessible to any corner of the organization. Leadership & Managing people Technology Managing yourself'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Let’s say you’re in the energy sector. Cosmeceuticals , for example, is the new industry emerging from the convergence of the personal care/cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. Convergence is not simply about combining ideas and technology; it is a primary leadership competency that allows organizations to design the right future.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2013

Sure, the company was eventually both punished and sold (it’s now one of the fastest-growing pharmaceutical businesses in the U.S.). The gist is that decisions about applications were being made in a vacuum that lacked leadership, and movement on the applications was further delayed by massive miscommunication between units.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The Joint Center For Energy Storage Research (JCESR) has a five-year mandate to develop next generation battery technologies. In battery research, for example, scientists have long focused on finding materials with greater energy density. Draetta of IACS has found many of the same issues arise in pharmaceutical research.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Leadership would shape the conversation to ensure proposals were strategically on-point. Japanese pharmaceutical Eisai used them to improve care for Alzheimer’s patients. The project released staff energy that was more than ready to be tapped. The conversation would be neither bottom-up nor top down.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

But since your ability to execute well and consistently is the very fabric of success, I can think of no better place to focus your time and energy. Execution is not a single-point event. It’s an ongoing process.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Change management Execution Leadership' My research found that the majority of the efforts failed.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Imagine, for example, that you’re a pharmaceutical CEO deciding whether to recall a new drug. The shareholder asked Cook about the company’s renewable energy efforts and told him that Apple should only undertake such efforts if they were profitable. How should you make this decision?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

What would this leadership look like over time? food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., oil, gas & consumable fuels, electric, gas and water utilities); Financials (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

In virtually every advanced field, whether it’s information technology, biotechnology, agriculture, or renewable energy, America holds a leading position. Those factors do play important roles, but the most important thing driving America’s success has been its unparalleled scientific leadership.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Rather, this sought-after executive is very ''other-directed'' and excels at harnessing the power of others through leadership and inspiration." Companies that were more likely to rely heavily on internal, rather than external, talent were those with fewer than 500 employees, energy and utility companies, and financial services firms.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2021

“The biggest leadership challenge is to create the future while managing the present across the entire organization.” Flatiron Health is now a Roche Pharma company that brings together patients, care providers in cancer hospitals, and even competing pharmaceutical companies and regulators like the Food and Drug Administration.

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Brand Insurance Participative Open-book 96

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

When a detailed cost assessment identified significant savings potential, executive leadership boldly added another five percentage points to the target. If every activity is the result of a command from on high, the company runs the risk of sucking all the energy out of the room.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

So there is something about needing to keep all 500 partners happy which brings a level of politics, which you wouldn’t get if we were an engineering company or a pharmaceuticals company.”. But they display the attitude toward leadership that it is not work one would choose, only a responsibility that should be shouldered by “one of us.”.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican. food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g.,

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