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The Mylan EpiPen Debacle: How Tremendous Greed Can Lead to the Demise of a Leader

N2Growth Blog

As you have likely heard, the pharmaceutical company Mylan and its CEO, Heather Bresch, have come under immense scrutiny for the firm’s EpiPen pricing policy. And against that, manufacturing the product, distributing the product, enhancing the product, investing.” It costs something to develop the product.

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How Veterans Outscore Their Counterparts on Leadership

Center for Creative Leadership

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). Participative management. Change management.

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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

When does pharmaceutical pricing become price gouging? When does product promotion become false advertising? One of the managers involved in the affair was an idealistic young man named Dennis Gioia, who went into the auto industry to make a contribution to society. When does online data harvesting become invasion of privacy?

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Most Desired Trait by Companies Seeking Senior Executives

Great Leadership By Dan

Rather, this sought-after executive is very ''other-directed'' and excels at harnessing the power of others through leadership and inspiration." Global trends in talent management indicate that companies are investing more in grooming internal leaders, and they are doing a better job of onboarding the executives they hire from the outside."

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The Optimal Margin of Illusion

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Robert Bruce Shaw : Research into the psychology of leadership highlights the benefit of being more confident than you should be. The challenge, then, is to strike a productive balance between the confidence you need to be successful and the doubt you need to identify and address the weaknesses that matter.

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To P or Not to P: Does Your Purpose Provoke Passion?

The Practical Leader

.” These shifts have profound implications for leadership and culture. McGill University management professor and author, Henry Mintzberg said, “an organization without human commitment is like a person without a soul: Skeleton, flesh, and blood may be able to consume and to excrete, but there is no life force.”

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Why Businesses Must Think Beyond Shareholders

Skip Prichard

“The biggest leadership challenge is to create the future while managing the present across the entire organization.” They are no longer content to be objects toward which products or brands are positioned and targeted.” Traditional customer experience management will not cut it anymore.

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