Scotty O. says we are no longer the most envied sales force in pharma. Tell us something we didn't already know you hack. I'd like to have been in the room when he read all 65 pages of comments. So what will change you ask?-Nothing. Being on the slaughter. The diabetes ship is sinking.
I can envision it now. The captain of the USS Lilly is looking through the periscope at the crippled FS Sanofi, now listing hard to starboard as smoke billows from its stacks. "Load tubes 1 and 3 with basalglar. Helmsman bring us to firing depth and make your course 235 degrees. Sonar ping for firing range. Flood tubes and open outer doors." You know how this movie ends.
Yes basalglar sub surfaces cruelly rams those left in sanofi lifeboats. While "big dogs" have long since been choppered off to a new ship ....rinse ...repeat
Is that the one where the Russian captain with a distinctly Scottish accent defects and gives basalglar to the French?
Its only a good analogy if somehow, the senior officers of the crippled ship are helicoptered off, and sent to a desert isle where their every desire is fulfilled for 2 years. Then (unfortunately for their new crew) they have to go back to running another sub. Our senior leadership's income stays the same whether they're retained or fired: their golden parachutes will cover their butts for several years. Can we say the same?
thanks for bringing back this thread. Hilarious and accurate. However, now there is a sequel, with Novo's sub arriving on scene to fire their tresiba and xulto-PHY torpedos at the sinking boat. The surface warships have now hauled out the ineffective and scandalous captain Kaplan and placed him in the brig, never to be heard from again. Off in the distance, a faint chopper sound can be heard. It's the Parisian coast guard lending international humanitarian aid. Speeding Zodiacs are on the way with fresh water and Mylar blankets. At the helm, in Seal team dive suits with knives strapped to their waists are JB and OB. Can they save the day?
And the band keeps playing... "Sanofi brings another insulin glargine patent suit against Merck" Total desperation. Nothing in pipeline. No liferafts or floatation devices. Women and children first (execs with golden chutes). All others...well you know the story. About to take its last breath. Godspeed.
My RD told me the one management super-power he would wish for all is this: the self-confidence and judgement to hire people, with killer talent and awesome values, who want your job and can do it better. Do this and the next person they hire will do the same and your company will crush it. Don't do this, and you will have a hot mess of mediocrity.
Yes...I would agree with that statement. However, anyone with that talent and desire to succeed would NEVER want to work for Sanofi. Because if they were smart and savvy, they would have done their due diligence and would know to steer clear of this crap hole with no bright future. Sanofi will never recruit and more importantly, retain anyone with any common sense. Unfortunately that Sanofi "management super power" you speak of, is only a super power in his/her own narcissistic mind. This company knows nothing about medical research or treating its most valued assets, its very own employees. Just look at its pipeline and its personnel. Both are in turmoil. Peace.
lol. if you are referring to the job in Diabetes you just keep singing that song and in no time at all like magic before your very inspired and motivated eyes PooF! it will be gone. Sanofi problems unrelated to lack of good employees. Novo CEO recently said it best ...stop blaming pricing pressure for lack of success and look at your pipeline. Sanofi has no pipeline. And as a result, in spite of all of your "killer talent" you have nothing to sell. And yet, you and the RD and leadership continue to blame employees. Im not so sure of your "awesome values" but I am convinced you are a flaming narcissist that will soon be unemployed. Good luck with that.
Alas, this is the French navy we are talking about. They already have enough refugees in Paris from various Middle Eastern countries and they don't want any damn Americans adding to the workload (but they will still take the dollars). No, the French navy has surrounded the ailing craft and is towing it back to open seas. Your best bet is to try to make it to Spain or Algeria, otherwise you had better be able to swim like Michael Phelps.
That nonsense that Scott preached about being valued and enviednwas the dumbest thing I heard come outnof someone in management in my life
I remember a tall, dorky (occasionally leather-clad) racist responding to CP posts about her many inadequacies as the lowest, dumbest thing Ive seen from management, ever. Well, that and imploring us to give a round of applause to the numb nuts that deserved firing as opposed to applause. Witty ripping the file force at every turn was classic! Pushing (and pimping) CHALLENGER as late as 2015 was downright stupid. Who can forget about the hiring of the porn-mustachioed guy that padded the payroll with his cronies from Novartis? Look at the damage he caused in whats gotta be the shortest tenure at his position at Hoescht, Marion Merrill Dow, Sanofi Synthelabo collective history. Many of our ABLs and the Change Agents "experiment". Need I say more? In short, we are the hind teat on a fat stinky sow of an industry. Betcha 25 bucks that the industry goes back to 2001 numbers by end of next year. Our reach-and-frequency model shouldve been put to pasture AT LEAST8 years ago. Our B.O.D. or whoever makes decisions on high-level execs here should be made to run back and forth across 287 buck naked in January.
