Being anticipatory often boils down to the ability to see what everyone else misses. How can you do that? One way is to simply look where no one else happens to be looking. And how and where you look can help broaden both your and your organization’s capacity for being anticipatory. Leveraging the Law of Opposites isn’t just about being contrarian or being different just for the sake of being different. Continue reading
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#198 – A FRAMEWORK FOR QUALITY RISK MANAGEMENT OF FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT – PHIL DESANTIS
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This two-part article focuses on risk management of facilities and equipment. It describes how a risk-based approach to facilities and equipment management fits into an integrated, effective quality systems structure. The principles discussed are equally applicable to all quality systems. Facilities and equipment represent a broad range of risk to product quality and are one of the key quality systems commonly identified in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. Continue reading
#198 – RISK MANAGEMENT … THE WHAT, WHY, AND HOW – MICHAEL STANLEIGH
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Risk Management is the process of identifying, analyzing and responding to risk factors throughout the life of a project and in the best interests of its objectives. Proper risk management implies control of possible future events and is proactive rather than reactive. Continue reading
#197 – WHY WOMEN LOSE CONFIDENCE? – ELIZABETH LIONS
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“The problem is not with life. The problem is you haven’t taken charge of your mind.”—sadguru, Isha Foundation
I always take questions at the end of my talks, and recently I distinctly remember a women in the back of the room that said, ” Elizabeth, I attended one of your talks recently, and you told us about the monkey in our heads. That really helped me. Can you tell that story again?” Continue reading
#195 – POTENTIAL ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OF A PANDEMIC – GEARY SIKICH
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At the time of this writing seasonal flu is spreading through much of the world. The current flu vaccine is approximately 30% effective. Ever since the H1N1 outbreak in 2007 that was declared a pandemic by a reactive World Health Organization (WHO); WHO and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have been reluctant to move too quickly in declaring an outbreak, whether influenza, Ebola, Norovirus, Adenovirus or any of the myriad of potential pandemic causing viruses a pandemic. Continue reading
