Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 26, 2019

Our series of industry trend research reports — created using our flagship 360-assessment tool, Benchmarks® for Managers — shows that great similarities exist among leaders across industries including healthcare, pharmaceutical, financial, tech, energy, and government (civilian). Army Leadership Trend Report.

Benchmarking 57

Benchmarking Leadership Bottom-up Leadership Pipeline 57

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2014

Guest post from Robert Bruce Shaw : Research into the psychology of leadership highlights the benefit of being more confident than you should be. You also need metrics and review processes that provide you with accurate data and keep you from being overly optimistic or biased in your perceptions. Develop Peripheral Vision.

Shaw 229

Shaw Telecommunications Metrics Pharmaceuticals 229

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

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. When I conducted leadership training for J&J, one of its very top executives spent many hours with every class.

Ethics 137

Ethics Pharmaceuticals PR Execution 137

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

In my new book “ The 4 Lenses of Innovation ”, I outline four proven ways to generate the new strategic opportunities that will power your company’s future growth. For example, they might say, “We’re a bank,” or “We make office furniture,” or “We’re in the pharmaceutical business.” This is quite understandable.

How To 100

How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

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. The following is a guest post by Russell Bishop. That seemed to make sense.

Bureaucracy 203

Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 203

QAspire

JANUARY 24, 2010

He was a marketing executive with a large pharmaceutical company when he decided to pursue his calling and start a fitness center. He went through a painful process of starting up, getting space on lease and getting some funding from the bank to get some basic equipments. replied the man who was himself a fitness freak. Don’t Kill It!

Directory 84

Directory Blog Pharmaceuticals Quality 84

Coaching Tip

MARCH 15, 2011

Nevertheless, politicians, business leaders and informed citizens can hurry the process along and put America back at the top of its economic game by understanding the value of time & patience, deregulation and entrepreneurship. . The Power of Adversity: Tough Times Can Make You Stronger, Wiser, and Better. Time and Patience.

Pharmaceuticals 84

Pharmaceuticals Creativity Long-term Power 84

The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

In that post, I listed a number of things common to the political process that are terrible examples of how to behave when you are really trying to solve a problem or resolve a conflict. I am, though, a person who can observe the process and see how the current discussion has virtually no hope of arriving at a good conclusion.

Health Care 102

Health Care Engineering System Politics 102

The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

In that post, I listed a number of things common to the political process that are terrible examples of how to behave when you are really trying to solve a problem or resolve a conflict. I am, though, a person who can observe the process and see how the current discussion has virtually no hope of arriving at a good conclusion.

Health Care 102

Health Care Engineering System Politics 102

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

In order to do this, your company needs a process to source radical ideas that can catapult your business to new heights, open up new markets, or bring in completely unfamiliar profit streams. Here are five power skills we discovered to help you find uncontested space. Develop Creative Discontent. Use Convergence Thinking. Find Pivots.

Skills 8

Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Spending on corporate learning, particularly leadership development, continues to increase at a staggering pace. According to one piece of research , spending on frontline leadership development alone increased by over 310% in a three-year period. Learning in Business Functions Happens Through Processes. Pat Canova/Getty Images.

Skills 11

Skills Agility Learning-by-Doing Content 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Prasad, CEO of Dr. Reddy’s, a 33-year-old global pharmaceutical company headquartered in India that produces affordable generic medication. His leadership team began with a search for purpose. Normally, just getting the raw materials would take him months, not to mention the rest of the process for making the medication.

Company 15

Company Agility Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

In a recent Gallup poll , the pharmaceutical industry was the most widely disliked private industry, ranking even lower than lawyers. Their mandate: Come up with fresh ideas for making the notoriously expensive and time-consuming drug-development process more efficient.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly has created a crowdsourcing platform called InnoCentive , through which outside innovators are paid to solve vexing problems the company faces. Your mistakes are seen as an inevitable part of the learning process rather than as more evidence of your underlying failings. And it works!

How To 14

How To Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing Tips 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Pharmaceutical manufacturers, insurers, and retailers invest millions in risk avoidance. It takes leadership to establish decision management and closed-loop measurement practices. But through decisive leadership and consistent measurement, plenty of companies have shown it can be done. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.

Merchandising 11

Merchandising Risk Management Supply Chain Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

Fortunately, in recent years, social network analysis (SNA) has emerged as a powerful new way for managers to see the patterns of interaction — information sharing, problem-solving, coaching, and mentoring — that make up the less visible, often informal side of an organization. If you can't measure it, how can you manage it?

Intangible Assets 15

Intangible Assets Analysis Pharmaceuticals Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Enrique Santacana of ABB North America, a power and automation-technology firm, voiced his concern this way: “An overarching issue was the exposure we had as a company,” Santacana explained, “For example, how information was being used or may be used in a way that was not conducive to good business practices.

CEO 8

CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The vital—though not-soon-to-be answered—question is whether Mr. Nadella brings the right leadership talents not only to run the show but also to grow the enterprise at the center of one of most turbulent and competitive frays on earth. Leadership Microsoft Succession planning'

CEO 8

CEO Bottom-up Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Many factors make an organization prone to sexual harassment: a hierarchical structure, a male-dominated environment, and a climate that tolerates transgressions — particularly when they are committed by those with power. Leadership. Medicine has all three of these elements. Harassment thrives in settings dominated by men.

Health Care 8

Health Care Policies How To Reputation 8

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." All you have to bring to the class is interest and curiosity.

Mission Statement 9

Mission Statement Class Learning-by-Doing Pharmaceuticals 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

It also focuses our attention on the forces that shape behavior in organizations, and so highlights an important question: are all those forces (including structure, processes, and incentives) "culture" or is culture simply the behavioral outputs? "In Culture is a process of "sense-making" in organizations.

Incentives 8

Incentives Definition Pharmaceuticals System 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

3) What processes in an organization affect culture? What processes in an organization affect culture? So here is one: Culture is the set of processes in an organization that affects the total motivation of its people. In a high-performing culture, those processes maximize total motivation. 2) What is culture worth?

Motivation 8

Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

In this massive piece, Nicholas Carlson analyzes Armstrong''s rise from his days as the owner of a strawberry business, uncovering a leadership trajectory that culminated in a proxy war with an activist investor and a final realization that his baby — local-news and listings provider Patch — needed to be trimmed, or else. Leadership'

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Long-term Short-term CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. We found that, for pharmaceutical industry CEOs, there is a statistically significant relationship between a CEO’s specialist background and the firm’s performance.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

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. But they recognize that they — and the organization — need a process to help them reach their goals.

Middle Management 14

Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 14

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.

Brand 96

Brand Insurance Participative Open-book 96

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

billion due to derelict mortgage and foreclosure processes. initiative — prohibitions against off-label marketing under the False Claims Act — swept through the pharmaceutical industry. The most notable was Fannie Mae's $10.8 billion restatement. In another instance, a new enforcement.

Finance 9

Finance Banking Press Release Pharmaceuticals 9

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Pfizer, America’s largest pharmaceutical company and a member of the Dow Jones Index, made a bid to acquire its British competitor AstraZeneca this past May. Please consider supporting the IFJ to ensure that our youth''s voices are heard and heeded. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. It would simply have been unpatriotic.

Finance 131

Finance Incentives Education Pharmaceuticals 131

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2015

Mark, a ten-year veteran of the pharmaceutical R&D world with a Ph.D. As a team leader, he had proven himself effective—delivering results, improving processes, and directing junior staff. From power over to power with. The answer was simple: Mark was bossy. You and Your Team.

Management 8

Management Self-aware Teamwork Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

Leaders don’t necessarily gain power by dint of high rank; they need to earn it every day. Clever people do not want to be told how to do their jobs, but they appreciate the importance of coherence, and the power of colleagues pulling together rather than working at cross purposes. How do they do that?

Politics 8

Politics Pharmaceuticals Consultative Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Yet, as companies grow, promotions fall in line with corporate processes, complex “balanced” scorecards of performance, and regression to the mean. Distortion of decisions: A number of years ago we studied in detail how the most important decisions like product approvals were made at a large pharmaceutical firm.

Execution 10

Execution Bureaucracy Self-aware CEO 10