an online book by David Gurteen
Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc. (J&J) is an American multinational, pharmaceutical, and medical technologies corporation headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the company is ranked No. 40 on the 2023 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations. In 2023, the company was ranked 40th in the Forbes Global 2000. Johnson & Johnson has a global workforce of approximately 130,000 employees who are led by the company's current chairman and chief executive officer, Joaquin Duato.
Johnson & Johnson was founded in 1886 by three brothers, Robert Wood Johnson, James Wood Johnson, and Edward Mead Johnson, selling ready-to-use sterile surgical dressings. In 2023, the company split off its consumer healthcare business sector into a new publicly traded company, Kenvue. The company is exclusively focused on developing and producing pharmaceutical prescription drugs and medical device technologies.
Johnson & Johnson is one of the world's most valuable companies and is one of only two U.S.-based companies that has a prime credit rating of AAA.
Credit: Wikipedia - Johnson_&_JohnsonGurteen Knowledge Café: Johnson & Johnson Knowledge Café in Cork, Ireland, 2015 A Gurteen Knowledge Café, which I custom designed and ran for Johnson & Johnson in Cork, Ireland, in November 2015. This Café was a little different from my regular Cafés in that people were standing at small pod-like tables, and although not apparent … Continue reading Johnson & Johnson Knowledge Café in Cork, Ireland David Gurteen, 2015
Knowledge Cafés are best suited to groups of 12 to 30 people, but occasionally there is a need to cater for more. This story describes a Knowledge Café for 100 people. In November 2015, I designed and ran a Knowledge Café for about 100 managers at Johnson & Johnson in Cork, Ireland. It was part … Continue reading Knowledge Cafés at Johnson & Johnson Running four Knowledge Cafés concurrently
Learn by talking: We learn when we talk. You might think that you don’t learn when talking but learn when listening. It is not as simple as that. When we have a conversation, we not only learn from others by listening to them but paradoxically, we learn from ourselves through the very act of talking. … Continue reading Learn by Talking When speaking we organize cognitively what we know
