Formed in the Crucible of Crisis: My Approach and insights on Leading Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team
Written by Ian C. Read (in collaboration with Jeff Cohen) Excerpt from Leader to Leader article Volume 2021, Issue 101, Summer 202, Pages 23-29 I became chief executive officer (CEO) of Pfizer, a top five global pharmaceutical company, in a crisis, one that...
Building Trust with your Client, the CEO
One of the best projects I ever worked on is described in the Summer 2021 issue of Leader to Leader in an article authored by Ian Read, Pfizer’s CEO from 2010 to 2018 entitled “Formed in the Crucible of Crisis: My Approach and Insights on Leading Pfizer’s Executive...
Formed in the Crucible of Crisis: My Approach and insights on Leading Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team
Written by Ian C. Read (in collaboration with Jeff Cohen) Excerpt from Leader to Leader article Volume 2021, Issue 101, Summer 202, Pages 23-29 I became chief executive officer (CEO) of Pfizer, a top five global pharmaceutical company, in a crisis, one that...
Deep Dive: Sharing an Informed PoV (Point of View) is Key to Showing Executive Presence
In some ways, it seems so obvious; stating your opinion in a meeting is a direct way to have impact and show executive presence, a key sign of potential. Sharing an informed PoV shows you’ve done the homework and/or thinking needed. Stating your PoV at the right time...
Dispatches From The Future: How Lessons In Pandemic Adaptations Made The Workplace Better
Imagine it is October 2021 and we are capturing key changes in the workplace. What would we be talking about? I hope it sounds like this... The knowledge-worker workplace laboratory has already been working overtime in '20 and '21 and achieving some impressive...
Powerful Questions Drive Great Decisions
Senior leaders often have to make big decisions, and they are judged by the consequences. Making decisions and taking responsibility for their effect will often define a leader's reputation and legacy. In ambiguous times, there are always several choices on how to...
Accelerating Talent Development In The Work-From-Home/Hybrid Model
With eight months of our experiment in working from home (WFH) or in a hybrid office/WFH model, some CEOs have raised legitimate concerns about developing talent, often concluding that companies must have employees co-located. The assumption to challenge seems to be...
Three Ways Leaders Can Foster Permanent Change In Response To Today’s Issues
The global Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement triggered many corporate commitments that might deliver significant reforms inside companies and society in general. At the same time, most companies are thinking about what to keep or jettison from our experiment in...
Practice Leadership ‘ands’ During Times Of Uncertainty And Disruption
Leaders are being tested by COVID-19 and the rapidly evolving responses that are dramatically disrupting how we work in our organizations and with our teams. We have many leadership habits that help us deal with all that comes at us in normal times, but those habits...