You will need to understand that you are not the boss of an engineer, or superior to an engineer, simply because you think you have vision.
Ferzaan Engineer, the boss of Quintiles's venture, says that for some diseases this can dramatically cut the time needed to bring new therapies to market.Until now, though, multinational drug companies and the CROs that work for them have preferred to test therapies closer to home.
This might seem to be something that would vex only an engineer like Mr Collins, the boss of Synergetics Environmental Engineering, based in Melbourne, Australia.
Plenty struck gold, including engineers in Silicon Valley and Lakshmi Mittal, boss of ArcelorMittal, a giant steel firm.
At a closed meeting with some Chrysler engineers last month, Bob Nardelli, the controversial former boss of Home Depot who has been appointed by Cerberus to turn the carmaker around, asked rhetorically whether the firm was bankrupt.
Andrew Yaxley, the well regarded boss of Tesco's London business, has been brought in to engineer a fightback after sales slumped by 6.3% in the country in the year to the end of February.
PLANS for rescuing France's ailing nuclear engineer, Areva, became a little clearer this week when the new boss of Electricité de France (EDF), Jean-Bernard Lévy, described on May 19th the role that the utility was prepared to play.
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