Proud winner of LTEN Excellence Award! Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the New York Times Best-selling book The Power of Habit and Smarter, Faster, Better. In short, he teaches us how habits work (so you can change them) and how to be more productive. And assures us anyone can do it. We had a chance to [...]
I wish all my friends in Commercial bio/pharma could chat with Keith Ferrazzi. He is considered to be a "Global Leader of Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum, one of the top "40 Under 40" business leaders by Crain's Business, and one of the most creative Americans in ‘Who's Really Who’. He has been published [...]
From the podium I looked around the room at 400+ commercial pharma leaders from the US and wondered; will they be as advanced as their peers in Europe? I had just returned from the eyeforpharma conference in Barcelona where I was downright impressed by pharma’s progress. We had meaningfully shifted from a focus on the product [...]
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 created something. Something that is really meaningful to us. Something that is intended to help millions of people. My husband John and I spent thousands of hours reading, listening, watching, talking, writing, honing, arguing, editing, polishing and generally obsessing over it. It’s ready now. But this blog isn’t about that end product. It’s about [...]
Imagine how fun it would be to be a fly on the wall at a dinner party with Dan Pink, Tom Peters, Karim Rashid, Seth Godin, Brian Collins and Malcolm Gladwell. Those are just 6 of 22 of the world’s leading brand thinkers that Debbie Millman interviewed for Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits. Even [...]
Remember Simon Sinek from the phenomenally popular TED talk and book "Start With Why"? Well, he's back with another fabulous book! I love this one! If you want to help your team perform you need to sit up and listen to what Simon says (I couldn't resist that one!) If you want to be one [...]
I loved this short article about how this woman changed how she introduced herself. "Um... I do what she said" said her stunned colleague. Enjoy! http://www.themuse.com/advice/how-to-tell-people-what-you-doand-be-remembered
Thank you Tom Rath! Tom is one of the most influential authors of the last decade on the role of human behavior in business and economics. You may have read one of the 5 million copies of his international bestsellers including How Full is Your Bucket and StrengthsFinder 2.0. But Tom stepped away from all [...]
Rarely can 'what you say' - make someone feel better. What makes them feel better is a connection. A fabulous 2-minute primer on empathy. Enjoy!
