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Have you ever noticed that for some colleagues and bosses you'll move mountains while for others, you can't seem to do anything right? What's going on here? Is it just you or is there a larger issue at work? Recently a friend and I were discussing an incident where she lost her "stop-gap" job as a sales clerk at a bookstore. She 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 's a professional woman who had been supplementing her free-lance writing income with several days a week at this local branch of a national chain. In spite of the fact that she thought she was doing a good job, every time she turned around the owner was riding her for some transgression. First she was blamed for someone else's co ; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug. Examples of combination products may in puter errors. Then rather than being praised for helping a customer grow a small order of books found in the store into a large order including additional books she ordered at my friend's suggestion, the owner saw this as a mistake. Stick to what we have on hand and don't raise expectations was the reprimand. My friend thought sh lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together. was crazy, but every time she stepped into the bookstore she found herself losing confidence and was poised to make mistakes she'd never make in any other setting. Was she losing her edge she wondered? I saw this incident as clear as light as a great example of diminished expectations and the halo effect (taking one person's pers here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe ective and generalizing to everyone's). The operative principle at work is -- other people's thoughts about us can impact our performance -- especially those in authority! Remembering an incident dating back 15 years when my son was in kindergarten, I shared it with my friend to substantiate my position. During a two day period w d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations. Combination pro en I observed his class, I noticed how his teacher treated each child with respect, admiration and a belief they could do anything she challenged them to do -- no matter how timid they might be. With this attitude, she was able to bring forth capabilities from everyone in the class. Yet, each day the traveling art teacher entering ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesnt have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc the very same room displayed a different viewpoint about many of the students. In her estimation one boy in particular was a true nemesis. She disciplined and ridiculed him continuously during each of the hours I observed. After the art teacher left, the child magically transformed back into the angel the kindergarten teacher exp 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 cted. It was amazing to watch this transmutation before, during and after the art teacher's appearance on both days I was there. The only change that had occurred was the teacher's expectation of what she would find. This is often referred to as the Pygmalion Effect, named after George Bernard Shaw's play, Pymalion. This was pop nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically larized in the '60's in the musical film adaptation My Fair Lady when Rex Harrison transformed Audrey Hepburn, a Cockney-speaking woman into an aristocrat. He was able to work miracles with her in a short time because he believed in her. The theory is we rise (or fall) to someone else's expectation of us. In the work world this is 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 ue carries profound implications --whom we work for and with and their opinions of our abilities, skills and overall capacities can profoundly affect our productivity and output. Here's an example. A company recently conducted a 360-assessment process with each member of the management team as preliminary to a company-wide retreat ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi Even though many of the people who participated in the process had worked side-by-side for many years, this was one of the first times they were offered any direct feedback on their performance by colleagues and bosses because this small, entrepreneurial organization had never adopted any formal performance review process. This w ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it. Following aspects would a as the first attempt of its kind to begin to put some issues on the table, prior to the retreat. Questions in the assessment ranged from "What I have liked about working with you" to "What gets in my way of working as effectively as I could with you." All responses were anonymous. One person, we'll call Janet, observed that many dd to the challenges in developing combination products: Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well? Which combination prod people who completed her survey praised her for her time management skills, creativity and initiative. Yet someone (and she had her idea of who this might be) remarked that she needed to improve her ability to be proactive. If she had her suspicions right, this person was a key member of the management team and had a lot of influen cts are meaningful and rational? Which therapeutic categories to select? Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients? Do combin e on the direction of the organization and her place in it. As Janet reviewed in her mind the interactions she'd had with this person over the last several months, she recognized times when this person had either directly or indirectly told her to be more proactive. Yet try as she may, within his sphere of influence she found hers tions increase the patient compliance? What would be the developing cost? How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen lf tongue-tied and less effective than she was when collaborating with other members of the team. It had to be his belief about her capability that was making the difference in the same way that the kindergarten art teacher had affected the little boy. When she was believed to be effective, Janet rose to the occasion and gave 150% 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 When she felt the energy of this authority figure's lowered expectations, she couldn't muster the drive she needed to produce the results he was after. So what can we do about the negative effect of a colleague's or bosses' diminished opinion of us? First, when looking for a new job, we can try to find a culture of positive th ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality. Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust nkers. We can learn to ask questions to get a sense of how much judgment these people infuse with their daily interactions with each other. We can be aware of this Pygmalion Effect and do our best not to let others' opinions of us and our performance capacities wash over us and affect us. In other words, we can picture ours y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products lves creating a "thought shield" around ourselves and strengthen it by holding only positive beliefs about our own abilities. We can hire a coach or a mentor with whom we interact weekly and who views us as whole, creative and resourceful and refuses to stand in judgment about us in any way. We can bathe in the glow of these . 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 positive considerations and stretch ourselves in whatever ways we can to live up to these expectations. We can teach our colleagues and bosses about the Pygmalion Effect and hold discussions within our organization or workgroup about these issues -- bringing the issue to the light of day rather than ignoring it or pretending elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements. Companies that provide selfless information through particip t is not there. Finally, we can guard against having negative thoughts or judgments ourselves about people we supervise, collaborate with or report to -- adapting a motto of "Look for the good, the bad will take care of itself." Choose your thoughts and your colleagues carefully and wisely. -- Your performance depends on it 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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