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I have encountered so many rude customer service people over the phone. Those rude and impatient people shouldn't have been hired to be there in the first place. I learned over the years to only hire high quality people to run your company and business.

If you hire the wr

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

ong kind of people to do the wrong kind of job, that’s when your business and company will suffer the consequences sooner or later. If you hire the right kind of people to work for you, your company will flourish and your customers and clients will want to do more business

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

with you in the future.

These are 5 qualities that you want the most from your employees:

#1 HIRE ONLY HAPPY & POSITIVE PEOPLE!

Happy people creates happy atmosphere at your work place and they will treat your customers will friendly, happy and kind attitude. Happ

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

people tend not complain too much! They are happy to do their job! Negative attitude is very infectious, it's like virus, it will spread very fast! One person with negative and ungrateful attitude can make other people's life miserable in your company. Make sure when they

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

look happy, they are not on drugs or drunk.

#2 HIRE SMART & GO-GETTER PEOPLE! Smart & go-getter people can find a way to solve problems even if they don't even know the answer. If they are only smart, but they are not a go-getter, sometimes, when they get stuck wi

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

h a problem, the smart people won't even try to solve the problem, but if they are both smart and go-getter, they will try hard to find a solution for every problem you give them to solve.

#3 HIRE PEOPLE WHO CAN CONTROL THEIR MOUTH!

There are so many potty mouth p

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

ople out there and it seems like swearing and cursing habit is becoming an acceptable behavior. Swearing and cursing habit is not an acceptable behavior! Can you imagine having your office or business being run by bunch of potty mouth people and they run around your office

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

or business? Your customers will judge your business by the quality of your employees' vocabulary. It makes costumers and other employees feel uncomfortable to have someone who keep swearing and cursing in your office and business. What comes out of their mouth really tel

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

s you how smart they are and their level of their intelligent.

#4 HIRE PEOPLE WHO ARE MATURE!

If you hire kid mentality people or people who are not mature, they tend not to do their job unless you watch them while they are doing their job and tell them that you w

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

ll punish them if they don't do their job. It's like telling a 3 year old child to clean up after his/her toys, "Mommy or daddy will spank you if you don't clean up your toys." If your case, you will tell them "I will fire you if you don't do your job!"

People who are mat

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

re also know how to control their temper and volcanoes! You really don't want to have bad temper people running around your business or office. You don't even want impatient and bad temper people to deal with your customers either, they will scare your customers away!

Peo

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

le who are mature have the gift of discretion; they don’t go around gossiping and backstabbing other people by talking bad about other people in the office and business. They will create distrust in the people within your company and organization. They must know how to con

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

rol their tongue!

#5 HIRE PEOPLE WITH GOOD LISTENING AND COMMUNICATION SKILL!

Have you ever been frustrated by someone because he/she is not doing the job you tell him/her to do? You tell this and they do totally the opposite of what you told them to do! The wor

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

t part is, you tell them something today and three weeks later the job is not done and they will start making excuses on why the job is not done. It will drive you crazy!

I learn over the years that sometimes it’s best to have your employees write down the things you want

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

them to do, so they know exactly what you want them to do on the paper, so there will be no more misunderstanding or miscommunication. It is all written down.

I personally make the habit of writing 6 things that I want to accomplish every day. I learn to prioritize the 6

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

things that I’d like to do daily. You can teach your people how to do this, write down 6 things that they want to work on that day on a piece of paper, go through the list and make sure the 6 things are done that day.

Make sure your employees understand what you want them

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

to do! Never ever assume that your employees understand and exactly know what you want them to do, it is best to make them repeat the instructions you give them couple times and write them down!

People will good communication and listening skills will automatically write

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

our instructions you give them down and they will listen to your instruction will with full attention! They will even ask you if they are not clear with the instruction. When they ask you, please don’t do the drill sergeants style management like “DIDN’T YOU GET IT THE FIR

.

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

T TIME?” If you’re like a drill sergeant manager who loves to scare your employees by threatening and intimidating them, I can assure you that your business and company will go down the drain in no time.

Make sure the people you hire to do a specific job are qualified wit

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

the skills and the experience that is needed to do get the job done!

I hope these tips will help you to grow a better and bigger business. We wish you the best and remember what Dale Carnegie says “People have signs on their forehead that says treat me as I am important.

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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