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Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #345 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Solar and Lunar Eclipses always elicit special responses and feelings around the world. The scientific explanations are fine, but it has not stopped people from keeping their own ideas and myths even now. Even the educated people would pause for a while and consider the folklore. One thing is common across all beliefs; it is an abnormal, out of ordinary, not-so-good event and it should be guarded against. Muslims offer collective prayers during this time. Others do what they consider appropriate to ward off evils at this time. Here is a roundup of several myths from various cultures, without comment. Chinese considered that a celestial...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #344 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .   In this Trilogy, I began by taking from powerhouses of new ideas, namely,   INSEAD,  McKinsey’s, and  Harvard Business School . In this blogpost, I am taking from an article published in HBR on 18 June 18, 2020, with the title and authors given below. I chose this article because wearing mask is the current hot topic, is relevant everywhere, is close to everyone and is extremely important. Our policy makers and opinion leaders are usually focusing on so-called important areas. This being the most basic and workable protection needs attention at all levels. I have done some editing to keep it more relevant to o...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #343 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .   McKinsey is in the forefront of thought leaders worldwide. During COVID19, McKinsey’s has collected information and generated ideas daily. The sum total of their effort is huge quantitatively and qualitatively. I am sharing here excerpts from a June 12 podcast discussion with three retired army commanders. It is a 42 minutes long podcast which says a lot.  I have edited heavily to keep just the spirit of main points. Please follow the link below to listen to the full podcast.   About the Participants Michael B. Donley  is a former secretary of the US Air Force.  C. Robert Kehler  is a retired US Air Force...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #342 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .   We think of not talking about COVID19 and its impact on life, society, economy, families and relationships. But how can we ignore the elephant in the room? And is it right to ignore the problem which is looking us in the face? Logic and Reason say that we should not. So, we keep returning to the topic but from different angles. The thought leaders of the world, and I count three main leaders whom I read, are INSEAD France, Harvard US, and McKinsey having offices in various major areas of the world. All three have been watching the situation closely and generating ideas constantly. They do have a dazzling array of teachers, resea...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #341 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Disclaimer. The discussion and opinions expressed are entirely my own. These are based on my experience, observations and learning over long years. These may not be entirely unique. However, any resemblance is unintended and coincidental. If a material is taken from a particular source, it is properly referred to that source.   Continued from Previous…… We have come to the last part of this topic where we shall see how possibly Holistic Management may be brought in. Holistic Management is a general term which is used for many different trades. The holistic  parameters vary with the trade. Our discussion shall focus on Pharma b...