We all hope to have employees who can think and operate independently, who want what is best for the business and who care about the organization and its members. Yet these are the same attributes that mingle to create and sustain organizational conflict. And conflict can either motivate change or completely debilitate movement and growth within an organization and among its team members.
Presenter: Barry Cohen, Senior Director, Clinical Data Strategies, Octagon Research Solutions, Inc. Presenter: Lex Jansen, Senior Consultant, Clinical Data Strategies, Octagon Research Solutions, Inc.
If you work in Regulatory or Clinical within a pharma or biotech company, you are probably a member or a leader of a cross-functional product team. The idea of assembling cross-functional teams to address the various disciplines and detailed aspects of drug development really came into being in the early 1990s. Today, cross-functional teams are the foundation of most drug development organizations. Yet, leading a team of experts from very different backgrounds can be extremely challenging. Tight timelines and missed deadlines usually add pressure to this scenario.
