Series Of Bad Leaders

[Anonymous]

Even worse, is the fact that many of the people you have hired from other companies (my own included - Big Pharma - A lot bigger than Lilly) continue that tradition of self centered incompetence. Seriously guys, some of those (actually all of those) you hired from my company were at best third tier or worse, who would never have progressed any further in their careers here. The only discernible reason that I can point to as to why they were hired, is through the well worn Lilly policy of nepotism.

I worked for Lilly many, many moons ago as a FDE and learned very quickly how Lilly does business. I saw shockingly poor FTEs hired back then, who only were so because of their connections. Working for other companies since, has reinforced why I wouldn't touch the company with a barge pole. As stated above re recent hires from my company, along with the comments I see regularly on the Lilly forum, it seems that nothing has changed, rather it has got worse over the years. Is it any wonder that Lilly can barely get any drugs through development?

To use an analogy; The study of basic genetics shows that inbreeding, and insular or limited

gene pools lead to genetic defects including retardation. That is a good way to describe how Lilly has not moved on over the years, as it seems that the same policies are being pursued which has maintained a culture that was counter productive & out of date 20 years ago, let alone now.

The World and most of the rest of the Pharma Industry has moved on, yet it seems that Lilly is still stuck in the past. Am I wrong?

You are not wrong your assessment is right on point. Lilly is tremendously inbreed with Hoosier and foreigner mentality. Both of these are counterproductive and although the CEO got a PhD at Harvard he is still a Hoosier through and through. Lillys success has been based on luck rather than brains, the people that had any brains at all left due to a dumbing down mentality. SF