Leadership is the core of any successful organisation. pharmaceutical sales and marketing organisations employ great managers yet far too few great leaders. With a hardening global economy, numerous pipeline challenges and massive budget cuts, ensuring a commercially successful pharmaceutical brand life requires a change from traditional management techniques to transformational leadership. This paper discusses how transformational leaders could be awakened within an organisation, and how a shared sense of trust, commitment, imagination and risk-taking can make almost anything possible.
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