Boosting Your Leadership Skills
To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of The Medicine Maker, we look back on some of our most popular articles focused on careers and leadership. Looking for words of wisdom and tips on being a leader and advancing your career? This is the article list for you.
Stephanie Vine | | Career
Expect the Unexpected
Jobs for life are a thing of the past – make sure you develop the tools to survive and thrive, wherever your career takes you.
“Young scientists starting out today should expect to have not just multiple jobs but multiple careers throughout their professional life. To live under the illusion that you will maintain one job indefinitely would be naïve, but that’s not to say you can’t find success and fulfilment.”
Leadership: Keeping the Focus on Innovation
Life sciences is one of the most innovative industries in the world. What are the leadership skills required? Elke de Clerck, Global Science & Innovation Director at Rousselot, offers her perspective.
“My first manager told me something that has set the base for my views on leadership: “Your job is to make sure that we do not need you anymore in this position so you can progress quickly if you choose to – it is up to you to organize your future path.”
Lessons in Misadventure
And why a “half-baked strategy just might kill you.”
“When faced with unexpected setbacks and difficult choices, where all solutions are imperfect, it is best to sleep on it and tackle the problem again in the morning with a fresh perspective.”
The Art of Writing
Publications are vital to building your profile, but for many scientists it’s less of an art and more of an afterthought. Here, we present a straightforward guide to preparing papers and posters that will get you noticed.
“Good journal editors and peer reviewers will quickly see through attempts to publish papers that present only an incremental development.”
Four Top Tips for Leadership
The importance of experience, learning, collaboration, and dealing with environments dominated by men.
“We played a game once during a management training program. The group devolved into two teams with both trying to outdo the other. Neither team won. And the group lost. Looking back, the obvious strategy was to maintain focus on the collaboration. We would have all succeeded if we had done that.”
Hello – From Women in Pharma
The Women in Pharma network aims to inspire, empower and shape the pharma industry to better serve women. Meet the minds behind the mission.
“We need more than online modules of unconscious bias training to get more women into leadership. We need to let go of the disempowering beliefs and habits that we’ve unconsciously allowed to dictate our lives and stop trying to be “Superwomen.””
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Leadership in Times of Crisis
At the CPhI Festival of Pharma held in 2020, The Medicine Maker held a roundtable discussion featuring members of our previous Power Lists to discuss the challenges of leadership during these trying times.
“Simply reaching out to connect to direct reports, for example, or other people in the organization with more regularity than a normal busy schedule would usually permit has also been useful. In short, “over communication” I think has been very important for us.”
No One Left Behind
Sitting Down With… Eric Dube, CEO of Travere Therapeutics
“views on leadership have changed and the traditional style or phenotype of leader has been challenged as we think about how people want to work post COVID-19 and what younger generations want. In fact, many of the traits I was told were weaknesses in leaders are now seen as strengths as we emerge from the pandemic.”
Working Together to Unlock Innovation
How incumbent pharma can learn and benefit from disruptive entrepreneurs
“An entrepreneur on the other hand, looks to achieve something world-changing and is happy to take risks to improve a product to achieve the vision.”
Pfizer on Young Talent and Internships
There are myriad opportunities across different industries for young scientific talent. Why work in the pharma industry?
“We love showing young people that science is cool! When students understand the real-life application of the science that they learn in the classroom or lecture hall and understand the mechanisms of disease – and how different modes of action of medicines and vaccines can improve health outcomes, they can see the true power of science.”
Making great scientific magazines isn’t just about delivering knowledge and high quality content; it’s also about packaging these in the right words to ensure that someone is truly inspired by a topic. My passion is ensuring that our authors’ expertise is presented as a seamless and enjoyable reading experience, whether in print, in digital or on social media. I’ve spent fourteen years writing and editing features for scientific and manufacturing publications, and in making this content engaging and accessible without sacrificing its scientific integrity. There is nothing better than a magazine with great content that feels great to read.
