Donald Davis
How to Start a Life Science Company: Book Review
How to Start a Life Science Company: A Comprehensive Guide for First-Time Entrepreneurs by Leah Cannon My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is...
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Donald Davis
- Jun 17, 2021
- 3 min
How to leverage your Strategy to achieve EXTREME growth
When you start a company you envision it having an impact on the world. Additionally, some people picture there being teams of people...
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Donald Davis
- Jun 16, 2021
- 2 min
New Company: It takes a village
We refer to companies who are selling products and growing as getting traction. This traction comes in the form of growing revenue,...
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Donald Davis
- Jun 9, 2021
- 2 min
Business Model Innovation: Will Customers Pay for Your Product?
The statement “build it and they will come” was a great quote from the Field of Dreams. However, in business, the levels of startup...
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Donald Davis
- Jun 8, 2021
- 3 min
Prioritizing The Big Things (Rocks) Ensures That Everything Will Fit
Rocks = Priorities Before I can seriously start this post there is an analogy you need to understand. In Stephen Covey’s book “First...
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Donald Davis
- May 11, 2021
- 2 min
Difference Between Thunder and Lightning
Storms have always fascinated me. I like the cool breeze in summer that comes with a good rain. I also like hearing the distant thunder...
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Donald Davis
- May 11, 2021
- 3 min
What Are the Odds
I hate to break it to you but Life Sciences is a tough place to work. Developing products and drugs are extremely challenging to deliver...
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Donald Davis
- Apr 24, 2021
- 2 min
Hacking Improvements Into Your Culture
Recently on a project I had a discussion about implementing monthly or quarterly challenges that would push the limits of the team toward...
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Donald Davis
- Mar 31, 2021
- 1 min
Vertical Growth vs. Horizontal
In his bestselling book Getting Things Done, David Allen breaks down Horizontal Focus as the process and steps that often result in...
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Donald Davis
- Feb 5, 2021
- 5 min
GOAL! What you want to be done
In soccer I love hearing the announcer yell G O A L!!!! When someone achieves a goal in my head I hear the same sound. If you want...
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Donald Davis
- Feb 4, 2021
- 3 min
People, How You Will Get Things Done
The company vision established where you are going. The individuals that you hire at a base level need to support the company values. You...
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Donald Davis
- Feb 4, 2021
- 3 min
Your Vision Explains Where You Want to Go
When many entrepreneurs create their company they may have a vision but they oftentimes do not write this vision down. It is expressed or...
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Donald Davis
- Feb 3, 2021
- 1 min
High Performance Teams – NASCAR Pitcrew
“What sets apart high-performance teams is the degree of commitment, particularly how deeply committed the members are to one another.” –...
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Donald Davis
- Feb 3, 2021
- 2 min
Problem Solving – Creative or Reactive
I was recently asked about my problem-solving approach and if I was a creative or reactive problem solver. In this post, you are going to...
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Donald Davis
- Feb 3, 2021
- 2 min
Survival – it’s not about doing the same stuff over and over
Over the holidays I was introduced to the show Alone. Alone is a survival show where contestants are placed in a location “alone”. The...
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Donald Davis
- Feb 3, 2021
- 1 min
When Innovating Consider Extreme Use
When I think of extreme use my mind often goes to extreme sports (i.e skateboarding, snowboarding, freestyle skiing, in-line...
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Donald Davis
- Feb 2, 2021
- 2 min
Innovation – Jobs to be Done (JTBD)
In Clayton Christensen’s book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, he describes two parts of the Dilemma: Value to innovation is an S curve that...
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Donald Davis
- Feb 2, 2021
- 2 min
How A Hero’s Journey is similar to the Life Sciences Journey
The Hero’s Journey should not be unfamiliar to many of us in Life Sciences. The path that most technologies, leaders, and companies...
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Donald Davis
- Feb 2, 2021
- 2 min
Measurement: What good looks like
When you frame up operational, organizational, competitive, or financial performance in any organization, measurement of performance is...
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Donald Davis
- Feb 2, 2021
- 1 min
Shrink, Hide or Grow
In these times, when speaking with Life Science Executives, I see three approaches that leaders are taking shrink, to hide, or to grow. ...
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