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Past Meetings
February 16, 2010
The Art of the Long View: The Future of Health Care & Pharmaceuticals
Learning faster than your competitors is the only sustainable competitive advantage in an environment of rapid change and innovation (Arie de Geus, Royal Dutch Shell).
January 19, 2010
Less good work, more great work
I suppose everyone should exercise in the morning. But this was a networking exercise lead by Box of Crayons founder Michael Bungay Stanier: “I want you all to pull out your business cards. Stand up. Go and find somebody you’ve never met before and introduce yourself. Now, for three minutes, here’s what I want you to talk about: What was the high point and the low point of last week for you? Go.”
November 17, 2009
Do Canadians really do it better?
Is a little healthcare better than none? What is the Silver Tsunami? When is a doughnut hole not seen at Tim Horton's? These were some of the questions broached by Frank Micciche and Janet Lambert at the PMCQ’s November breakfast as they took us through Health Care Reform in the US and its implications for Canada.
October 20, 2009
"As The World Turns" A Talk of Sense and Sensibility
For over a year now picking up the business section of any newspaper or tuning into television business reports, the news has been as volatile as the markets themselves. Not surprising really, but the noise of all that hyperbole has made it a tad difficult to get a real grasp on what’s been going on.
September 22, 2009
Mike Lipkin is full of it
About ten minutes into his presentation and I’m wondering what a one-on-one conversation with Mike Lipkin would be like. Pretty one-sided, I conclude. The guy exudes enough energy to exhaust most of the hardworking stiffs at the first breakfast of the PMCQ’s 2009-2010 season. By the end there wasn’t enough energy left for a decent question. But there was a palpable sense of motivation, which is Lipkin’s number one goal — to motivate, inspire, provoke, stir, rouse, animate… well, you probably have a Thesaurus. The key is that everyone benefits from Lipkin’s side of the conversation. And that’s the aim of his recent book, One Life, One Meeting: How to Build Preeminence One Conversation at a Time.
May 27, 2009
Just a regulatory guy
On May 27, PMCQ was pleased to host Ray Chepesiuk, PAAB’s amiable commissioner as the Club’s final speaker for the 2008-2009 season.
April 21, 2009
Artful Persuasion
Keeping an audience involved is no mean feat at the best of times. But when you’re dealing with a room full of pharma marketing and sales professionals, they might be just a tad sceptical about yet another talk on “persuasion.”
March 17, 2009
Pluck of the Irish
In 2002, Patrick Murphy was told he didn't have long to live. Diagnosed with level 4 cutaneous melanoma with positive lymph nodes, he was advised to get his affairs in order. What the doctors probably didn't have in mind was biking. However, they did not take into account Pat's extraordinary emotional, spiritual and physical strength. In 2004, after several surgeries and Interferon treatment, he cycled 6,000 kilometres. You can imagine that the only time he looks back is when he tells his story to people like the PMCQ on a clear blue St. Patrick's Day morning.
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