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What Jimmy Carter taught me about leadership

Work Life

Over the years, three key lessons from President Carter’s leadership emerged that can inspire and guide any executive trying to navigate complex organizations or multifaceted problems. If that’s not leadership, I don’t know what is. He has lived this principle every day.

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Portola Pharmaceuticals Welcomes Ernie Meyer as Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer

Spiceworks

Portola Pharmaceuticals, Inc.® ® (Nasdaq: PTLA) today announced the appointment of Ernie Meyer as executive vice president and chief human resources officer, effective August 20.

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5 reasons to cultivate strategic business partnerships

Insperity

Another example is partnering with an organization or association so your business can share high-value thought leadership content with its audience or network to further establish your authority and expertise in your market niche. Five benefits of strategic partnerships.

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Why Inclusive Design Is The Key To Equitable Workspaces In The Future of Work

All Work

Currently, Ballinger is part of a team ensuring that a major pharmaceutical company’s workspaces embody inclusive design practices and provide an equitable experience for all employees. The goal of inclusive design is to go beyond the functional minimums and create spaces that allow for an equitable experience for all users.

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Personality tests might be derailing your leaders

Work Life

This anguished remark came as a newly promoted pharmaceutical executive read through an assessment report detailing scathing feedback from his team and colleagues. Stories like these have fueled a surge in organizations turning to personality tests to assess and develop leadership , swelling to 80% of the Fortune 500.

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How to make valuable values

People Business Psychology

A pharmaceutical company might state that “promoting health” is one of their key values, and a cinema or theatre chain might espouse the value of entertainment and leisure. Leadership Modelling Leading by Example: Leaders should embody the organization’s values in their personal behaviour and decision-making.

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A kaleidoscope approach to leading: Five perspective shifts that can foster innovation

Work Life

Jayshree Seth has been engaged in technology and product development for driving the commercialization of innovative products within a large corporation for over three decades and has extensively explored and written about these evolving leadership paradigms. What distant horizons does your leadership vision encompass?