Profound change is far more likely to originate not from a process-laden organization leveraging scale but rather from an impassioned, narrative-driven company, formed around a compelling idea that’s engaged the mind and spirit of small number of highly motivated people, viscerally driven to pursue this...
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If you don’t think this is a dispiriting time to be in Big Pharma, you obviously haven’t spent time with anyone who works there, laboring in the trenches. I have – in fact, I’ve spent the last several days at a professional workshop with a number of colleagues from a range of companies – and [...] Read...
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Reid Hoffman’s talk this week at Stanford (podcast and video available here) touched on several themes that collectively seem to comprise the Silicon Valley innovator ethos; most are relevant to healthcare and biopharma, and I agree with all his assertions except one. (Hoffman, for those tuning in late...
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