Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2015

We spent time discussing how a project or a goal would move our team forward AND would benefit our customers and members of our community. Each of us could articulate how our plans, decisions, and actions aligned with our team purpose and values, plus how they boosted service to our community members. For whom do they do it?

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 6, 2020

This allowed the team to see how activating a maser energy sensor molecule, known as the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), was stimulating the break down of the mitochondria. “As a consequence, many pharmaceutical companies are currently working to develop pre-clinical compounds that activate AMPK.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Researchers at Indiana University aim to overcome that gap in a recently published study whereby they team up with LinkedIn to create a global map of labor flow. The researchers monitored their usage between 1990 and 2015, as well as assessing around 130 million specific job transitions between over 4 million companies during that period.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Pfizer, the multinational pharmaceutical giant, has become increasingly intentional about shaping its culture. They embody our humanity and innovative spirit, and are determined to tackle some of the most pressing health care challenges of our time. Developing this ownership culture will be key to our success. Pfizer people care.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

The following is a guest piece by Innovation Excellence co-founder Rowan Gibson. What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. This is quite understandable.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

billion and is estimated to be worth $48 billion by 2026, with the Covid pandemic driving growth, especially in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, but also in sectors such as automotive and defense. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 ” Modified behavior.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. Leads Tuck’s incredibly innovative coaching program. ’ Game.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2018

Your team is A1. If you are planning an expansion, you need to have an efficient and strong team behind you to cope with the demands of growth. This delay may frustrate your plans, but it is essential so that you can gauge seasonal variations and confirm that your boost in profits is not just a temporary position.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. Yet they have already generated tens of millions of dollars in value for Roivant.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

And I can assure you that the advice I share with you today has stood the test of time… It helped me inspire my Weatherchem team to create the original Flapper® dispensing closure. Filed under: Integrity , Leadership , Purpose , Team Building , Trust Tagged: | Albert J. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The same is true for social innovators. However, unlike many business leaders, it is easy for social innovators to overlook making an intentional effort to drive demand because the need for their innovation is so great. But even the most needed innovation does not sell itself. A team of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

In the pharmaceutical industry, technology is transforming the sales process. A few decades ago, pharmaceutical companies promoted their products almost entirely through personal contact by salespeople with physicians. Consequently, pharmaceutical companies now look beyond the sales force to reach physicians.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2012

It's depressing to realize how few of the teams in our lives use their human capital and opportunities well, when it comes to sustaining performance, innovating, or adapting. Teams need a shared sense of purpose or shared vision. Teams typically define their focus as performance or learning, but most teams need both.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is the first in a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Lack of consensus among players in a complex system is one of the biggest barriers to innovation. It's a classic change management problem.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

We recently visited the brand-new R&D lab of Dr Reddy's , one of India's leading pharmaceutical firms. Besides Dr Reddy's, several leading Indian firms are pioneering polycentric innovation: Tata Motors. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink. Cambridge, U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Since 1999, three years after OxyContin was unveiled by Purdue Pharmaceuticals, the rate of drug overdoses in the U.S. Meanwhile, the amount of prescription opioids sold by pharmaceutical companies has quadrupled, despite no proliferation in the amount of reported pain. And what can we learn from it? Commercial.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The study assembles considerable evidence about the hidden business model of major pharmaceutical companies: to devote most of their research budget to developing hundreds of drugs that provide few if any advantages over existing drugs and then market them heavily to doctors and patients. But why not?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2018

Why the Pharmaceutical Industry Is Booming in Japan. Philips is teaming with Japanese doctors to join a “hospital to home” solution that emphasizes getting people out of expensive care facilities and back home, where they want to be. Conditional early approval expanded to cover innovative medical devices in July 2017.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

For organizations seeking to become more adaptive and innovative, culture change is often the most challenging part of the transformation. Innovation demands new behaviors from leaders and employees that are often antithetical to corporate cultures, which are historically focused on operational excellence and efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

It can certainly be valuable to have the help of strategy officers or teams on refining and implementing strategy, but the strategy itself needs to be conceived and owned by the CEO (or equivalent for a division). Brent’s team hypothesized that a line of customizable orthotics could help do the trick.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Right now, for example, the hot topic is “digital leadership” — driving organizations to be more innovative, iterative, and collaborative as they develop digital strategies to disrupt or transform their current business. The culture at GE, for example, centers on execution, simplicity, and innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in emerging markets, and in working with local funds based in those markets (despite the fact that reverse innovation in venture capital seems counterintuitive). In effect, the VCs at Nadathur Holdings serve as the executive team for a miniature healthcare innovation ecosystem.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Paul is an old friend who, until his recent retirement, worked as a senior scientist at a pharmaceutical company, where he managed a group of innovative researchers. Paul and his team were able to thrive and contribute to the organization. Some good scientists left the company, and others lost their innovative spark.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2011

TNG Pharmaceuticals from University of Louisville developed a vaccine for a parasite that strikes cattle, costing the dairy and beef industry over $1 billion a year. The other winners, FYI, were a better human authentication tool for websites and a material science innovation, a heat-resistant filter made from titanium dioxide.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Library leaders knew that given the immense changes brought on by digital innovations, as well as shifts in the communities that the Library served, it would need to evolve. Innovation communities had been used by Best Buy to grow its portion of the women’s consumer electronics market by $4.4b in less than five years.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

So it is with most breakthrough innovations and banner financial years. There is no line on the balance sheet for "ability to innovate" or "skill at managing brand." And even if there were, it would have to be expressed as a probability statement: How likely is Apple to innovate or out-innovate its peers?

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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. Nearly 68% of these large-scale change and innovative efforts failed.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Obama reportedly felt the situation called for someone who could set priorities and help government agencies and private sector organizations of all kinds to collaborate and innovate. And so organizations around the world have to team up to create new strategies to defeat an invisible enemy. Teaming at the CDC. military teaming.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Over the years, innovations in distribution, media, and technology have enabled buyers to use non-sales force channels for various steps of their buying journey. Innovation eliminated certain responsibilities for salespeople; yet at the same time, new responsibilities emerged, and entirely new kinds of companies and industries formed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

ineffective innovation strategies. 5 Principles for Innovation in Emerging Markets. They operate in an environment where the barriers to entry are relatively low and the focus of competition is on product and business model innovations and service delivery, rather than the most advanced technologies. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

You and Your Team Series. 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. Public Speaking. Assessment: What’s Feeding Your Fear of Public Speaking? Nancy Duarte and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

A very senior oil executive who is a neighbor of ours was at Heathrow greeting incoming teams at 5:00 in the morning. Of course, we sometimes see such passion in the business world, in the wild enthusiasms of R&D professionals in innovative engineering and pharmaceutical companies. He loved it.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. Policy can help through measures like capital access programs, business accelerators, or tax incentives.

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