Leadership
The Eight Characteristics of a Great Leader
We recently met a 42-year-old pharmaceutical employee who was promoted to commercial director of a European pharmaceutical company in Japan. In Japan, there is often a positive correlation between age and seniority. This gentleman was promoted because of his exceptional… Read More
Your Career
The Art of Business
WARREN BUFFETT, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, is famous for calling his conglomerate his “canvas.” Perhaps we can’t all have a company of Berkshire’s stature, but we do have our cubicles, teams, departments, business units, or subsidiaries to run that we… Read More
Industry Trends
Science without works is dead
At a recent Pharma Delegates meeting, I was asked by a senior executive at RaQualia Pharma whether I thought that science should take care of selling itself. His implication was that if a new chemical entity (NCE) is compelling enough,… Read More
Hiring Authorities Human Resources
What personality type are you?
I sat across the table from a leading HR Pharma director and was spellbound by his insights into the human psyche. “How did he do it?” I asked myself and soon posed the question: “What makes you such an effective… Read More
