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Antimicrobial Resistance – The Silent Crisis – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1192 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1192 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Anna Shvets Credit: Gustavo Fring Preamble Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is no longer a distant possibility; it is already here. According to the WHO, drug-resistant infections are increasingly undermining medical progress worldwide. Every year, more than a million lives are lost because once-reliable antibiotics and other antimicrobials are failing. Worse still, without concerted global action, that number is set to rise dramatically. AMR is not just a public-health concern: it’s a signal of deep structural weaknesses in how we produce, deploy, commercialize, regulate, and steward antimicrobial drugs. It calls for a wholesale rethin...

Major Shifts in Management Thinking Over Twenty Years – Shift #8 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1191 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1191 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Ann H Preamble This is the last post of this series that explored major shifts in management thinking and paradigm shifts over the last twenty years. There are more shifts as well that have taken place, but these ones capture the essence of change. Shift 8 – The Human-Centered Revolution: Why Emotional Intelligence and Psychological Safety Now Define Effective Leadership For more than a century, leadership was defined by a familiar set of traits: authority, charisma, confidence, decisiveness, and the ability to command. Leaders were expected to be strong, unemotional, and always in control. They set direction, gave...

Major Shifts in Management Thinking Over Twenty Years – Shift #7 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1190 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1190 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Arina Krasnikova Credit: August de Richelieu Credit: Juairia Islam Shefa Preamble This series shall explore major shifts in management thinking and paradigm shifts over the last twenty years. Shift #7 – The New Competitive Advantage: Why Collaboration and Ecosystems Are Replacing Traditional Competition Competition has been at the heart of management philosophy. Companies fought rival firms for market share. They protected their intellectual property fiercely. They built moats, defended turf, and played zero-sum games. Winning meant beating the other players on the field. But the last twenty years have changed that...

Major Shifts in Management Thinking Over Twenty Years – Shift #6 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1189 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1188 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: JESHOOTS Preamble This series shall explore major shifts in management thinking and paradigm shifts over the last twenty years. Shift #5 – The Great Talent Reinvention: From Job Descriptions to Skills, Capabilities & Learning Velocity For most of modern corporate history, organizations were built around job descriptions. These documents defined roles, responsibilities, reporting lines, required qualifications, and KPIs. They were the building blocks of recruitment, performance management, promotion pathways, and organizational design. For decades, this model offered clarity and stability. But over the last twen...

Major Shifts in Management Thinking Over Twenty Years – Shift #5 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1188 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1188 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Kampus Production Credit: Mikhail Nilov Preamble This series shall explore major shifts in management thinking and paradigm shifts over the last twenty years. Shift 5 – From Leader as Controller to Distributed Leadership: Why Psychological Safety and Culture Now Drive Performance For most of the 20th century, leadership was defined by control. Leaders planned, directed, monitored, corrected. Managers were the brains; employees were the hands. This “leader as controller” model made sense in an era of predictable markets, slow technological change, and strict organizational hierarchies. Stability was the goal, and co...

Major Shifts in Management Thinking Over Twenty Years – Shift #4 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1187 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1187 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Photo by Alex Shute on Unsplash Preamble This series shall explore major shifts in management thinking and paradigm shifts over the last twenty years. Shift #4 – From Stability to VUCA to Antifragility: How Leaders Must Evolve for a Turbulent World For most of the 20th century and even the early 2000s, leaders operated in business environments that were relatively predictable. Markets behaved logically, competitors were known, supply chains were stable, and planning cycles lasted years. Strategy was a linear exercise: analyze, decide, execute. Change happened, but it happened in slow, manageable waves. Then the world shift...