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Team & Transform
Technological managers are governing the Life Sciences, ICT and quite some other industries. When these managers were students, they were the smartest ones of their class, excellent in science, learning foreign languages, they don’t need anybody else. I know it so well, well, because I’m one of those.
During scientific conferences we are discussing bluntly and openly with colleagues. We are so used to this attitude that we don’t go easy in accepting knowledge from experts outside our disciplines. The CEO of an organic chemical synthesis company – an expert in chiral chemistry - told me that in his whole career it has never happened that a pharmaceutical researcher from another discipline would ask him for an opinion in his particular field of expertise.
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