Stop in for a cup of coffee

A long time ago, my father as CEO of a newly public biotech company that was one of the top 25 IPOs of the same year that AOL came out, gave me this piece of advice that I am just now beginning to understanding fully.

“A good scientist doesn’t suffer fools, and rejects them.

A good scientific executive learns to suffer the fools, and then changes them to become what he needs them to be.”

I am starting to understand that successfully being at the top of the field is not the same as successfuly being at the top of the Company...and that they are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

The difference is vision, leadership, persuasion, guidance...and patience.