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Our Responsibility and Debt to Patients and Our Industry

Our Responsibility and Debt to Patients and Our Industry

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As I work to maintain connections with people over the years, reflecting on the transformative personal growth many people, including myself, have experienced throughout our pharmaceutical careers is often thrilling. The journey from the initial stages of developing sole-contributor expertise while striving to bring life-changing treatments forward for patients to gaining personal comfort in the higher-risk environment of smaller companies and leading teams of people has been remarkable. Along this path, I have witnessed many people’s personal and professional growth…

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Building rapport at the beginning of a dialog improves outcomes
Cordial Political Dialog in the Office

Cordial Political Dialog in the Office

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If you want to get a team riled up, drop a political comment into a group conversation and hold on.  Politics are more of a third rail at work than when we gather at the Thanksgiving dinner table.  I can say with confidence that political conversations frequently do not end well.  Oh sure, the casual banter starts off with reasonable engagement, but it quickly devolves into rhetoric as the verbal combatants stop listening and prepare to hurl volleys of poorly…

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Goals are not a Panacea for Achievement

Goals are not a Panacea for Achievement

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I have been a strong advocate of S.M.A.R.T. goals.  This method has significant appeal for annual bonus planning and assessing performance achievement.  However, being goal driven in all aspects of your life can be detrimental. What I have begun to understand is that goals always leave me feeling like I am chasing a long-sought reward that never seems to be within my reach.  By moving the objective as soon as I get meaningfully close, I convince myself that striving for…

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Fear, Insecurity and the Scarcity Mindset

Fear, Insecurity and the Scarcity Mindset

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I feel as if there is a significant volume of works adoring, in a sense, and vilifying the scarcity mentality in our culture. I was fist exposed to these concepts by Brené Brown, and I was challenged by her first TED talk. Personally, I was inspired and motivated for the longest time by the “greed is good” mantra. I felt the constant longing for more was a staircase that drove us to higher levels of personal and professional development. Life…

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