Proud winner of LTEN Excellence Award! There were 15 minutes left. There was only one thing left to do. Paul Simms, the mastermind behind eyeforpharma, had the difficult job of summarizing the past three days in Barcelona. Nearly 900 senior pharma leaders, patients and service partners had gathered for the pre-eminent, largest attended pharma conference of the year. We enjoyed awesome [...]
We all face rejection every day. As a pharma person you face a lot more than the average bear. How is it impacting your day and your success? I loved this TED talk by Jia Jiang in which he shares the surprising lessons he discovered in his 100 days of rejection experiment. Squash your own [...]
Quick! What do you want most for your children and loved ones… and for yourself? Give me a one-word answer. Did you say happiness? If you are like the thousands of people Martin Seligman polled, you would say “happiness,” “confidence,” “contentment,” “fulfillment,” “balance,” “good stuff,” “kindness,” “health,” “love,” “being civilized,” or “meaning.” In short, well-being [...]
"I’ve been watching you for 3 years,” she said to me as I walked off the stage. You see, Kathy Foris, VP Scientific Affairs at LEO pharma had a similar mission to mine. I have been trying to help pharma figure out how to become patient centric, and Kathy has been trying to help LEO [...]
I was wishing upon a star last night – the first star I saw in the deep blue sky. Do you know what I wished for? Maybe it’s the same as what you wish for; happiness for my family and friends – to live a meaningful life filled with great contribution and joy. I started [...]
I couldn’t believe my luck. A few weeks after I had finished reading the excellent book The Compound Effect, I met the author Darren Hardy. In addition to his title of best-selling author, he is the editor of Success Magazine. Think about it. He interviews successful people all day long – for a living! I wanted to get his [...]
I watched this fabulous TED talk again this morning. It really impacted me. I highly recommend you watch it. I'll explain below how I think it can help us in pharma. But first, a bit about the talk..... Activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta illustrates the double standard that drives our broken relationship to charities. Do [...]
I’ve read books about businesses doing well by doing good and I’ve read books about the rise of social media. This is the first book that shows how the two are intrinsically interlinked. Social media will reward those businesses and people who are socially responsible and remove those who aren’t.1 In Who Cares Wins (such a clever title, [...]
Do you know exactly what you should say and do to move someone forward? What if you could make small changes that spark big influence? Written by influence heavyweights Steve J. Martin, Noah J. Goldstein and Robert B. Cialdini (known as the leading social scientist in the field of influence), The small BIG offers us fifty insights [...]
Adam Bryant started with a simple idea. Instead of asking CEOs about their strategies and competitive landscapes, he asked them about: leadership lessons they had learned, the culture they try to foster, how they hire. This idea burgeoned into a feature column in the New York Times called Corner Office and a New York Times bestseller by the same name. In [...]
