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Just Other Articles - 35 Surefire Ways to Kill a Meeting
1. Play “find the meeting” by changing the location and time of your meeting at the last minute.
2. Don’t bother to book your meeting room in advance. Lead th
2. Don’t bother to book your meeting room in advance. Lead th
According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product
e group from room to room trying to find another place to meet.
3. Bring 5 handouts for 20 attendees.
4. Leave and say, “I’ll be back. I’m going to make hand
3. Bring 5 handouts for 20 attendees.
4. Leave and say, “I’ll be back. I’m going to make hand
; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.
Examples of combination products may in
Examples of combination products may in
outs.”
5. Don't use an agenda because “everybody knows why we are here.”
6. Keep an attitude that “meetings are not work.”
”Meetings are indispensable
5. Don't use an agenda because “everybody knows why we are here.”
6. Keep an attitude that “meetings are not work.”
”Meetings are indispensable
lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.
when you don't want to do anything. "
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - )
7. Say “I don’t need a microphone” and proceed to yell for the entire meet
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - )
7. Say “I don’t need a microphone” and proceed to yell for the entire meet
here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe
ing or talk too softly for the back of the room to hear.
8. Combine two unrelated meetings into one big meeting, ensuring that half the group will not care abou
8. Combine two unrelated meetings into one big meeting, ensuring that half the group will not care abou
d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.
Combination pro
Combination pro
t half of the meeting.
“Souffl? is more important than you think. If men ate souffl? before meetings, life could be much different.”
Jacques Baeyens,
“Souffl? is more important than you think. If men ate souffl? before meetings, life could be much different.”
Jacques Baeyens,
ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc
French consul general in NYC
9. Don’t serve food during a lunchtime meeting.
10. Play “find a chair” at the beginning of the meeting due to inadequate
9. Don’t serve food during a lunchtime meeting.
10. Play “find a chair” at the beginning of the meeting due to inadequate
easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi
seating.
11. Allow people to bring active pagers and cell phones and stop the meeting when one goes off.
12. Use visual aids no one can see without binocular
11. Allow people to bring active pagers and cell phones and stop the meeting when one goes off.
12. Use visual aids no one can see without binocular
nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
s.
13. When you are finished, keep going just because the meeting was scheduled to take longer.
14. Invite Bozo the Facilitator to conduct your meeting.
15.
13. When you are finished, keep going just because the meeting was scheduled to take longer.
14. Invite Bozo the Facilitator to conduct your meeting.
15.
and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ
Spend time trying to remember what happened at the last meeting.
16. Spend time arguing about what happened at the last meeting.
17. Refuse to take “off-line”
16. Spend time arguing about what happened at the last meeting.
17. Refuse to take “off-line”
ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
conversations off line.
18. Fail to take minutes and follow up after the meeting.
19. Disband without summarizing the meeting.
20. Start over each time a l
18. Fail to take minutes and follow up after the meeting.
19. Disband without summarizing the meeting.
20. Start over each time a l
ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.
Following aspects would a
Following aspects would a
atecomer arrives.
21. Speak in “alphabet soup” and other jargon most people don’t understand.
22. Announce that someone will be joining by conference call and
21. Speak in “alphabet soup” and other jargon most people don’t understand.
22. Announce that someone will be joining by conference call and
dd to the challenges in developing combination products:
Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
take everyone's time while you set up the equipment.
23. Start with an apology like "sorry to get started late” or “I know you can't read this, but…"
24. Fail
23. Start with an apology like "sorry to get started late” or “I know you can't read this, but…"
24. Fail
cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
to agree on the purpose of the meeting.
25. Go over the allotted time.
26. Volunteer absentee team members and forget to tell them about their assignments.
25. Go over the allotted time.
26. Volunteer absentee team members and forget to tell them about their assignments.
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
“A motion to adjourn is always in order. “
- Robert A. Heinlein
27. Schedule a long meeting. Anything over 90 minutes is too long for most m
t?
As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel
As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel
etings.
“On average, a project manager spends 8 years of his or her lifetime in meetings. “
- Vijay Verma
28. Invite the wrong people to t
“On average, a project manager spends 8 years of his or her lifetime in meetings. “
- Vijay Verma
28. Invite the wrong people to t
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.
Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
he meeting.
29. Fail to invite people who should attend the meeting.
30. Allow “monopolizers” to ruin the meeting.
31. Speak to impress rather than expre
29. Fail to invite people who should attend the meeting.
30. Allow “monopolizers” to ruin the meeting.
31. Speak to impress rather than expre
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
ss. Use words like “utilize” when you mean “use” and “enhance” when you mean “improve”.
32. Come unprepared. Fail to plan for a successful meeting.
33. Re
32. Come unprepared. Fail to plan for a successful meeting.
33. Re
.
As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de
As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de
d agenda and handouts word for word to the participants.
34. Keep participants in the dark about their roles in the meeting.
35. Keep doing what you’ve alwa
34. Keep participants in the dark about their roles in the meeting.
35. Keep doing what you’ve alwa
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.
Companies that provide selfless information through particip
Companies that provide selfless information through particip
ys done even though you know you’ve had “defective meetings” in the past.
Please email your favorite “meeting killers” to john@thegravittgroup.com.
Please email your favorite “meeting killers” to john@thegravittgroup.com.
tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products
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