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• Posted Greater Value in Earlier Stage Pharma and Biotech Collaborative Partnerships to Leadership Matters
  Collaborative partnerships need more than a good product to be successfulCollaborative partnerships are of increasing importance for successful innovation within the life sciences industry[1]. Innovation within the pharmaceutical companies today is not comparable to that of 15 or 20 years...
• Posted Continuous and expanded collaborative partnership between Seattle Genetics and Genentech to Leadership Matters
  Under the expanded agreement, Genentech will pay an upfront fee of $12 million for rights to utilize Seattle Genetics' ADC technology with additional antigens to be named by Genentech. http://tw0.us/MkSIt is exciting to see this long standing collaborative partnership (2002)...
• Posted The Leadership Knowledge Deficit - Why Over-Leading Pushes Management Away And What To Do About It? to Leadership Matters
  It has become a pervasive problem in the industry and has led to great recent private-, public-industry and government leadership debacles - leaders who over-lead without really knowing what they are leading. Or to put this in other words,...
• Posted Trust Bust - Time For Contemplation And Action? to Leadership Matters
  It is no longer a 'secret' - confidence in today's business leaders is at an all-time low. Particularly 2008 has brought more harm than good in this respect - CEO's are criticized across industries, with their own employee base...
• Posted Leadership Control? - A CEO's 'Strangest Little Secret' to Leadership Matters
  In business, control is often synonymously used with leadership and is often considered a key leadership trait.  Of course, there is a level of control necessary in the business, for example in accounting, in production, by the governance board, through...
• Posted Does Your Consultant Amount To "Value" or "Cost"? 10 Questions every CEO should ask when hiring an external consultant to Leadership Matters
  As a CEO, hiring an external consultant is a serious and necessary resourcing step, focused on desired company value and results. For you it is critical to assure success, when introducing an outside consultant to the organization. The below listed...
• Posted Leader or Lagger? The Hidden Power of HR [Part 2] to Leadership Matters
  In part 1, I highlighted several reasons why I feel an incoming CEO and leader needs to develop a creative, collaborative and trusting relationship with HR and its leadership. In this second part, I will provide additional reasons why I...
• Posted Leader or Lagger? The Hidden Power of HR [Part 1] to Leadership Matters
  In my work, I am regularly challenged by actions of leaders who seem to underestimate the power of Human Resources (HR). The HR leader and its organization can either help you as a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to become...
• Posted People are people - really? to Leadership Matters
  People are people - accepting this as a leader makes all the difference. People think like people, talk like people, behave like people and yes, they can change as people, but only when they have decided to change and see...
• Posted Transparency is key to Leadership Matters
  Not sharing in a team setting is destructive.  I vividly remember an executive who 'managed up' and 'forgot' to share what was going on with his leadership and his extended team, all the while the organization was in a spin....
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• Posted Innovation - what else? to Leadership Matters
  Ironically, there is no hurdle in organizations to innovate, except the one created in leadership's mind. Just as leadership sets the tone for the organizational environment, it must create the open mindset and an error-accepting environment required for innovation, it...
• Posted Leadership Matters to Leadership Matters
  We may well say it is all that matters. Leadership defines an organization and its capabilities. A leader defines the environment, defines the team work, the communication, the framework for output and of course does all this in perfect concert...