What was Lilly like with Diedre Connelly?

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Deirdre is like every other executive. She does not have a lot of creativity, takes credit for the things people have done beneath her and has little leadership. Compared with what is left at Lilly--- she has tons of leadership. One thing she is doing well, is she is surrounding herself with some great ex-Lilly people,Jack Bailey, Mark Johnson, Dave Brown and others that simply are jumping ship at Lilly---- and Lilly has no way to stop the melt-down. This is not a sign of Deirdre's greatness but rather a sign of Lilly's incredible leadership weakness that starts with John L and permeates throughout his court jesters called his "leadership team".

So, Deirdre is as good or bad as the next person but she has a chance to work for GSK rather than a dung heap, which is what she was faced with at Lilly.
 






Deirdre is like every other executive. She does not have a lot of creativity, takes credit for the things people have done beneath her and has little leadership. Compared with what is left at Lilly--- she has tons of leadership. One thing she is doing well, is she is surrounding herself with some great ex-Lilly people,Jack Bailey, Mark Johnson, Dave Brown and others that simply are jumping ship at Lilly---- and Lilly has no way to stop the melt-down. This is not a sign of Deirdre's greatness but rather a sign of Lilly's incredible leadership weakness that starts with John L and permeates throughout his court jesters called his "leadership team".

So, Deirdre is as good or bad as the next person but she has a chance to work for GSK rather than a dung heap, which is what she was faced with at Lilly.
 






Anonymous said:
Deirdre is like every other executive. She does not have a lot of creativity, takes credit for the things people have done beneath her and has little leadership. Compared with what is left at Lilly--- she has tons of leadership. One thing she is doing well, is she is surrounding herself with some great ex-Lilly people,Jack Bailey, Mark Johnson, Dave Brown and others that simply are jumping ship at Lilly---- and Lilly has no way to stop the melt-down. This is not a sign of Deirdre's greatness but rather a sign of Lilly's incredible leadership weakness that starts with John L and permeates throughout his court jesters called his "leadership team".

So, Deirdre is as good or bad as the next person but she has a chance to work for GSK rather than a dung heap, which is what she was faced with at Lilly.
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Way too favorable.
 












She is running a nice little blog here at GSK now. Getting ready to lay off about 1500 of us. She been a big asset to help the corporate team run the neuroscience franchise into the ground. Is there a chance we could pay her severance and send her back to INDY? I think we got burned on that deal
 






WAY WAY WAY too favorable. I know that story well......VERY, VERY political. No results but kept getting promoted. Lilly somehow or another over the last 10 years went from a place that believed in results toward a "it's who you know" culture. Absolutely no way she is one of "the most powerful women in business." Nice person to your face.....passive aggressive behind your back. If you are not on "her team," look out. Certainly no idiot to be where she is, but not anyone who will take GSK to the land of the rich.
 






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She was just another strategic hire. I suppose that the all-white, all-male management team had to add a woman, a black, a Latino, and flocks of Asians at lower levels. How else do you outsource 50-75% of your business? Well you have to give the HR dept a lot of credit for keeping high-performing midwestern studs under their hoofs while promoting on a strictly geo-cultural-political basis - I know people, and yeah that's how it happens. You want to sell Cialis to gays, don't put gays in the ads, hire gays who spread the hard truth about Cialis! LOL... you want to sell to Chinese? Promote Chinese who can provide the connections to those communities, likewise with all the ethnic, sexual, social, political groups. Hey Lilly HR, you are real men (and women and well you know.... real men of genius.. here's to you, Mr. keeper-downer)... keep up the good work, but work on the job leveling a bit more ... like getting John down to an M3 level... now that would be REAL GENIUS.
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Well then how do you promote Lilly's Alzheimer's drug? Hire old people? Ha ha trick question. You youngster whipper snappers!
 


















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