From Hopeless to High-Performing: Transforming Pharma Teams with Rajesh Anandan and Nechama Katan
Description
Building high-performing teams in life sciences requires understanding how neurodiversity can be an advantage and designing work systems that enable different brain types to collaborate effectively.
• A high-performing team continues to function when everything around it has fallen apart
• Star players can become crutches that mask underlying team issues
• Life sciences faces unique challenges: financial pressures, outdated technology, layoffs, and pervasive lack of trust
• Teams often develop learned helplessness after years of having initiatives rejected
• Only 10-15% of people are needed to drive revolutionary change in an organisation
• Traditional management approaches fail because they don't account for individual differences
• Standard practices like the "feedback sandwich" often backfire depending on neurotype
• Creating concrete team habits that normalize desired behaviours works better than abstract training
• Tracking waste can give teams agency and hope while improving processes
• Many come to life sciences wanting to make a difference—reconnecting to this purpose is powerful
If you'd like to learn more about building high-performing teams in life sciences, reach out to Nehama Katan at wickedproblemwizards.com or find Rajesh Anandan at team-x.ai.
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