Mike Small - HCV NSD

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He is a backstabber and talks about Reps, etc. behind their backs. Watch yourself with him. I know first hand of his scamming, phony, two-faced ways. He will help his friends out though. He has hired many unqualified people to make sure he has people outside of the company to scratch his back.
 






Face it, Mike Small will forever go down as the greatest leader that Pegasys has had. How you like Tanja so far? Watch it, this woman will slit your throat when your not looking. She may be the most evil person in DNA.

Mike may not have been well liked by everyone, but he majority of us knew that he always had out best interests at heart. How much free dough did you collect from all the cool, motivating contests that Mike had for us? Oh yeah, thats right... you probably didn't and that is why your so bitter. Personally, I collected major bonus bucks and rewards contests monies loved every minute of these contests.

And what other leader got us the market share gains under their leadership that Mike did? And how did we get all the great data and studies to use to help use get passed an 80 share? again, Mike to the rescue. Because Mike is such a nice guy, he never gave himself the credit he deserves, which is why it easy for so many people to hate on him. He should have been an arrogant prick and then maybe people like you would have respected him?

It bothers me when people look past the obvious facts and spew off half truths. The fact is, Mike Small and Pegasys both rocked while he was here. Best to you MIke!
 






Agree, this thread is BS. Mike was the best, legacy Roche Nutley masterminded this success years ago...and now the SSF front runners in jeans are basking in the credit. Let's not forget it wasn't too long ago when we were "Driving to 75" kudos to everyone for once and for all kicking Schmerk's ass and scaring "Zalbin" and "Locteron" from even entering the fight. If it was up to the blowhard GNEs this would have been another Nutropin story
 












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Face it, Mike Small will forever go down as the greatest leader that Pegasys has had. How you like Tanja so far? Watch it, this woman will slit your throat when your not looking. She may be the most evil person in DNA.

Mike may not have been well liked by everyone, but he majority of us knew that he always had out best interests at heart. How much free dough did you collect from all the cool, motivating contests that Mike had for us? Oh yeah, thats right... you probably didn't and that is why your so bitter. Personally, I collected major bonus bucks and rewards contests monies loved every minute of these contests.

And what other leader got us the market share gains under their leadership that Mike did? And how did we get all the great data and studies to use to help use get passed an 80 share? again, Mike to the rescue. Because Mike is such a nice guy, he never gave himself the credit he deserves, which is why it easy for so many people to hate on him. He should have been an arrogant prick and then maybe people like you would have respected him?

It bothers me when people look past the obvious facts and spew off half truths. The fact is, Mike Small and Pegasys both rocked while he was here. Best to you MIke!
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Nice guy, but dumb as a door knob. Merck went downhill fast after IDEAL, and eventually virtually gave up the market. The Pegasys turnaround actually started under mikes predecessor. If you are a rep, you have no idea, from a professional level, about mike. You only know that you joked with you at meeting, and delivered presentations that he barely understood, and were prepared by others.

Compare mikes background, versus others in his previous position, and you will quickly see that he was a midget among giants. This is why he is now a glorified district manager leading a group of "reimbursement" people (this is a 8 make work job).
 






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Nice guy, but dumb as a door knob. Merck went downhill fast after IDEAL, and eventually virtually gave up the market. The Pegasys turnaround actually started under mikes predecessor. If you are a rep, you have no idea, from a professional level, about mike. You only know that you joked with you at meeting, and delivered presentations that he barely understood, and were prepared by others.

Compare mikes background, versus others in his previous position, and you will quickly see that he was a midget among giants. This is why he is now a glorified district manager leading a group of "reimbursement" people (this is a 8 make work job).
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Earl, you gotta let it go brotha? Mike thought you were a moron, and couldn't wait to kick you out. Mike was the man! Let it go! We all know it's you! Ask every sales and marketing person if they would rather have Mike than any of the leaders we've had and they would.
 






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Earl, you gotta let it go brotha? Mike thought you were a moron, and couldn't wait to kick you out. Mike was the man! Let it go! We all know it's you! Ask every sales and marketing person if they would rather have Mike than any of the leaders we've had and they would.
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Oh my god, someone has a grudge! Mike has been gone for about two years. He was awesome, but wanted to go home. What's the big deal? We have much bigger problems right now in HCV. Can we just give Tanja our support?
 






Dumb as sh** was demoted to a manager reimbursement. Heard he was able to actually land a legit job running a sales org at another pharma company...in way over his head...
 






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Dumb as sh** was demoted to a manager reimbursement. Heard he was able to actually land a legit job running a sales org at another pharma company...in way over his head...
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My God, no matter how astute your post is; you must be really bored and angry to repond to a post that started 2 years ago, and had a response in two months. What the heck is wrong with you?
 






Thanks for the sm history lesson. Mike is now at my crashing company, not really understanding what he got into, but p utting his foot in his mouth with the sales force.
 












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Okay, I know Mike is a friend of mine, so I'm protecting him a bit, but you have many facts wrong.

1. He interviewed against ALL the displaced Mircera RD's. Kendall did take a relo package to Michigan and if he were so good, he would have relo'd to NJ.

2. Black people get preferrential treatment if the interview is close to make quotas-that's a fact. Not racist.

3. He was an RSD at Genzyme and a start up company, not Amgen. You are mixing him up with one of the other Mircera folks.

4. Theresa Martinez is one of his best friends and she didn't want him to leave.

5. He wasn't demoted. He took a relo package to SF and took a relo package to NJ. He took a lower level job to go home. He lives in a palace on Genentech. Sounds pretty smart to me.

6. I'm not going to debate his intelligence. He did some great things for that franchise and was very strategic-contests, market share growth-despite being stuck with idiots like Earl, Walt and Fran.
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He has been gone for 2 years, why is this still up? He was awesome, we made a lot of money and some people didn't like him. This is so ridiculous!
 












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He has been gone for 2 years, why is this still up? He was awesome, we made a lot of money and some people didn't like him. This is so ridiculous!
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Originally Posted by Anonymous
Okay, I know Mike is a friend of mine, so I'm protecting him a bit, but you have many facts wrong.

1. He interviewed against ALL the displaced Mircera RD's. Kendall did take a relo package to Michigan and if he were so good, he would have relo'd to NJ.

Straight from an HR manager, Mike got the job BECAUSE he did not have to be relocated

2. Black people get preferrential treatment if the interview is close to make quotas-that's a fact. Not racist.

Please count all of the black leaders, and tell me that "black people" get preferential treatment. If this were correct, we would see many more.

3. He was an RSD at Genzyme and a start up company, not Amgen. You are mixing him up with one of the other Mircera folks.

He was an RSD for a few months, at Genzyme. He had no real background educationally or professionally to get the HCV job. He was given the job as a matter of convenience and nothing else.

4. Theresa Martinez is one of his best friends and she didn't want him to leave.

Mike was demoted, plain and simple. No body in their right mind would take leave an NSD position, to take a glorified DM job, in a dept with vague responsibilities.

5. He wasn't demoted. He took a relo package to SF and took a relo package to NJ. He took a lower level job to go home. He lives in a palace on Genentech. Sounds pretty smart to me.

Simply wrong, I spoke to him several times, and he was not thrilled at all. As he said to me, " I went from leading a group of 150, to managing a group of 8". Mike was pushed, he did not jump.

6. I'm not going to debate his intelligence. He did some great things for that franchise and was very strategic-contests, market share growth-despite being stuck with idiots like Earl, Walt and Fran

Walt carried him,. while he was there. I witnessed this first hand. I also know Fran, Earl, AND Walt, and they are all very bright people, who are absolutely thriving professionally.

Mike was not a bright fellow; there is nothing wrong with that. What he lacked intellectually, he made up with good interpersonal skills. The problem is sometimes you just can not hide.
 






Anonymous said:
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Okay, I know Mike is a friend of mine, so I'm protecting him a bit, but you have many facts wrong.

1. He interviewed against ALL the displaced Mircera RD's. Kendall did take a relo package to Michigan and if he were so good, he would have relo'd to NJ.

Straight from an HR manager, Mike got the job BECAUSE he did not have to be relocated

2. Black people get preferrential treatment if the interview is close to make quotas-that's a fact. Not racist.

Please count all of the black leaders, and tell me that "black people" get preferential treatment. If this were correct, we would see many more.

3. He was an RSD at Genzyme and a start up company, not Amgen. You are mixing him up with one of the other Mircera folks.

He was an RSD for a few months, at Genzyme. He had no real background educationally or professionally to get the HCV job. He was given the job as a matter of convenience and nothing else.

4. Theresa Martinez is one of his best friends and she didn't want him to leave.

Mike was demoted, plain and simple. No body in their right mind would take leave an NSD position, to take a glorified DM job, in a dept with vague responsibilities.

5. He wasn't demoted. He took a relo package to SF and took a relo package to NJ. He took a lower level job to go home. He lives in a palace on Genentech. Sounds pretty smart to me.

Simply wrong, I spoke to him several times, and he was not thrilled at all. As he said to me, " I went from leading a group of 150, to managing a group of 8". Mike was pushed, he did not jump.

6. I'm not going to debate his intelligence. He did some great things for that franchise and was very strategic-contests, market share growth-despite being stuck with idiots like Earl, Walt and Fran

Walt carried him,. while he was there. I witnessed this first hand. I also know Fran, Earl, AND Walt, and they are all very bright people, who are absolutely thriving professionally.

Mike was not a bright fellow; there is nothing wrong with that. What he lacked intellectually, he made up with good interpersonal skills. The problem is sometimes you just can not hide.
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1. Kendall was a zero. Couldn't even get a job at Genentech after he got laid off. 2. If it's close, tie goes to the minority. Check out Actemra's NSD. 3. Whatever. 4. He got a big package to move to SF and a big package to go home when he wanted to go back. He took a shitty job, hated it, but wasn't demoted. Fact. 5. He loved Walt, hated Earl, and that is who is writing these posts. Everybody knows that.

This is stupid. Mike was my boy but he is gone. He was very smart, but like to disarm people with his personality and charm. Move on.
 












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1. Kendall was a zero. Couldn't even get a job at Genentech after he got laid off. 2. If it's close, tie goes to the minority. Check out Actemra's NSD. 3. Whatever. 4. He got a big package to move to SF and a big package to go home when he wanted to go back. He took a shitty job, hated it, but wasn't demoted. Fact. 5. He loved Walt, hated Earl, and that is who is writing these posts. Everybody knows that.

This is stupid. Mike was my boy but he is gone. He was very smart, but like to disarm people with his personality and charm. Move on.
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Well he was just fired from his most recent company. Everywhere he goes he is in over his head and is not a difference maker. He does have a lot of charm and BS thus allowing to land these jobs. Eventually people will get wise to his crap
 












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What an asshole! Who writes this shit? He didn't get fired. He went to Abbvie to launch their HCV product. Man, lots of unnecessary hate!
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I am sure that he is much more seasoned now, but he really was not qualified to be an NSD when he was here, he just wasn't. Just go on linked in and look at his experience and education, and it will be very clear. The bottomline is that he was an experienced DM who was hired as a Mircera RSD. He was there for two years and the product never launched, so he had two years of RSD experience with nothing to sell, which is worthless. There were layoffs with mircera obviously, and the HCV NSD opened up. The company wanted to place as many people as possible, and it came down to mike and kendall, on who would be placed in HCV as NSD. Mike got the job because he was local, and required no relocation. You can scream all you want but this is the true story, not hate. This is first hand from an HR manager who would definitely have first hand knowledge.

While it is apparent to most who worked directly with him, that mike was in over his head, that was about 7 years ago. Clearly he has developed into a mature and skilled sales executive by now. Oh, the previous poster is correct, mike had the gift of gab, he really was a charmer and a consumate BS artist; but as dumb as a door knob.
 






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