Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2015

This singular emphasis on results can, however, cause players to operate from an “I win, you lose” philosophy – and act to inhibit others’ performance while they maximize their own. If the only things that leaders demand are results and performance, players in your organization will do their best to deliver those things.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Having joined the world’s largest pharmaceutical company, she is now out to raise the bar for human resources leadership across the organization. The HR Digest: Under your leadership, Pfizer continues to make great strides in the field of diversity and inclusion (D&I). The HR Digest: What is diversity to you?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Crafting and writing a branded healthcare executive resume, that differs from the traditional medical resume, can make a significant difference in your executive job search results and improve the opportunities to land that next-level position in pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

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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 “With 5G, you get fast upload speeds, up to 100Gbsp on many public networks.

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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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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The changing role of leadership will mean that the relationship between managers and direct reports will have to change in both directions. Many leaders will be operating more like the managing director of a consulting firm. The same trend is occurring in pharmaceuticals and telecommunications. Employee Engagement Leadership'

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Operating-cost productivity metrics might include the component costs for building an automobile or delivering a package, the rates of rework, and so forth. Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Investments in traditional leadership development are often misguided and a waste of money. In a Deloitte study of 7,000 organizations this year, 89% of executives rated “ strengthening the leadership pipeline ” an urgent issue. Paul Garbett for HBR. It’s not that development itself isn’t important.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

For years, there has been a push within the pharmaceutical industry to move “beyond the pill” — in other words, to build and deploy complementary services and solutions to diversify revenue sources. However, many beyond-the-pill efforts have sputtered or died. In addition, many top pharma customers (payers, etc.)

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

A global pharmaceutical company was about to lose the strategic advantage of several blockbuster drugs coming off patent. That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle. While a natural inclination, this group is (by design) representative of current operating units and functions, which often have a status quo to defend.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

According to a study conducted by the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, diversity in terms of gender, race, and ethnicity has proven to be beneficial for companies operating in the United States. “We looked at their experiences and not just their demographic background—the more functional aspect of diversity. ”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images. ” Clearly, more is needed.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In this article, I’d like to share the insights we’ve gleaned from the model’s first full year of operation, which hopefully organizations in health care and many other industries will find useful. The reporting lets executive leadership know precisely what is happening and unlocks frontline wisdom.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

I learned this while leading a turnaround of NPS Pharmaceuticals , a biotechnology company that now specializes in creating treatments for rare diseases. To save the 20-year-old company, I had to get it operating like a start-up. My senior executives and I made our values the language of leadership. This must come from the top.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Having managed or worked with clinical leaders in care-delivery organizations, the pharmaceutical industry, and government, I have observed three skills that are critical to the success of doctors and nurses as they make the transition to management: Operations management and execution. People leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

But how well schools meet this goal, and to what extent their teaching influences their students’ leadership, is an open question. As chief executive, Dolan followed the agency-theoretic prescription that was taught in business schools in the late 1970s, refocusing his company’s business almost exclusively on pharmaceuticals.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This premise equally applies to the environment businesses operate in today. Human error is a very real consequence of people operating in the real world. Since founding the Human Diver in 2016, Gareth has given risk training to a wide variety of organisations, from oil and gas and construction to pharmaceuticals and software.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2017

We also discovered a staggering lack of confidence in leadership: 71% of survey respondents said government officials are not at all or somewhat credible, and 63% said the same about CEOs. For example, 82% of respondents said that the pharmaceutical industry needs greater regulation. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2014

The first concerns a complex transatlantic acquisition of a biotech company by a pharmaceutical company. There were major overlaps in corporate and operational management positions, but most employees would be retained. And, judging from employee surveys, most managers rose to the leadership challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2014

It used to be that hospitals and health systems operated as islands, selecting and purchasing medical supplies, devices and medications in isolation, and keeping their operational and leadership practices to themselves. While collaboration is always challenging, the health care benefits are by now clear.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Their concerns fell into three broad categories: talent, operating in a global marketplace, and regulation and legislation. Operating in a Global Marketplace. Eight of the CEOs pointed to the challenges of operating in a fast-paced global marketplace. As a pharmaceutical company, we obviously were part of that whole ecosystem.

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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. What do you think?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. economy, expands America's global trade, and attracts foreign companies to base operations in the U.S. Visa restrictions also limit U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

These kinds of statements speak to a leader’s choice of values, and a failure to understand the relationships between a safe work environment and operational performance. The reality is that virtually all workplace injuries are preventable, and safety management and operational excellence are intimately linked. At Cummins, Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

Let’s look at a few examples of powerful summaries: “Pharmaceutical marketing executive with 20 years of experience creating commercial infrastructures, growing brands, and optimizing product value throughout launch, re-launch, and sunset life cycles across all customer segments—payers, physicians, and patients.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

One notable critic, Warren Bennis, a renowned leadership scholar from the University of Southern California, states that business schools have “an overemphasis on the rigor and an underemphasis on relevance.” Business schools responded. Now, years later, educators have been criticized for going too far.

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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. When innovations don't fit neatly into the slots that already exist, innovators must operate by stealth, going around the establishment.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Innovation demands new behaviors from leaders and employees that are often antithetical to corporate cultures, which are historically focused on operational excellence and efficiency. Prasad, CEO of Dr. Reddy’s, a 33-year-old global pharmaceutical company headquartered in India that produces affordable generic medication.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

For example, do you make and sell things, hire skilled employees and provide services, develop and new IP like software or pharmaceuticals, or build and manage digital networks, be they transactional, informational, or social? Organizational transformation must begin with a leadership transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

In explaining pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline's decision in 2009 to end this practice, CEO Andrew Witty said that "the company's decision was driven by the long-term nature of the pharmaceutical industry, which meant short-term financial indicators were of limited use.". CEOs should actively court desirable investors.

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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. Pat Canova/Getty Images. Insight center. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Those companies that ‘sweat’ their capabilities continuously improve them and sustainably capture the top-line growth in their industries and, ultimately, market leadership. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence. Second, a coherent system focuses strategic investment on what matters.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Many of the best leaders and managers in the business world operate from the Pleaser power style. When they are operating from their strengths, Pleasers can become the glue that holds a positive corporate culture together. Roger, a vice president of sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry, was one such Pleaser.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

The executives came from a wide array of industries, including financial services, pharmaceuticals, and media. They were more likely to operate based on black-and-white ideals, such as, “There is one best idea that should prevail” or “I am running a pure meritocracy.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

In a project for a pharmaceutical company, we were able to isolate the specific information sources that drove positive and negative sentiment toward the client’s brand. Organizations often seem obsessed by measuring fractional shifts in operational performance, capturing data on sales, inventory turns, and manufacturing efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Change management Customer service Informal leadership' If you’re like most of the managers I’ve met since 2006, you are probably knee-deep in the challenge of identifying excellence and spreading it to more people and places – and we can all keep learning from each other.

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