QUICK READ: Throughout the country, employees are demanding a say in the way their companies do business because of social issues. Why haven’t we heard this type of corporate activism in healthcare?
Pharma culture
KEY THOUGHT: Pharma companies three on meetings. According to an article in MIT’s Sloan Management Review, the average manager spends 23 hours a week in meetings, up a whopping 10 full hours (!) since the Mad Men era. Some of those meetings are no doubt productive but conservatively at least a third of the time spent on meetings is wasted in irrelevant conversations, boring presentations, and meandering chit-chat.
SUMMARY: No company can succeed without employees who care about customers. If pharma doesn’t make an effort to recruit and retain passionate, caring employees than they are in huge trouble.