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Major Shifts in Management Thinking Over Twenty Years – Shift 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1184

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Major Shifts in Management Thinking Over Twenty Years – Shift 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1184 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1184 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: Polina Zimmerman Preamble This series shall explore major shifts in management thinking and paradigm shifts over the last twenty years. From Hierarchies and Control to Networks, Systems, and Ecosystems For over a century, organizations were built like machines, precise, hierarchical, and predictable. Managers sat at the top, issuing commands down a well-ordered pyramid. Employees were expected to execute those commands efficiently, with minimal deviation. It was a world of control, clarity, and compliance, one that worked well in an era of stability and scale. But the last twenty years have completely rewritten the ...

Novartis Pharma Exits from Pakistan – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 1183

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Novartis Pharma Exits from Pakistan – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 1183 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 1183 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. Preamble This blog post summarizes the facts around the transaction, analyzing likely benefits and risks, and offering practical takeaways. Novartis Pakistan sold to IIL (Getz Group affiliate): what it means for the industry, patients and policy In May 2025 Novartis announced an agreement for its Pakistan business to be transferred to International Investment II Limited (IIL), an investment holding company affiliated with Muller & Phipps and part of the Getz Group, and in November 2025 Pakistan’s Competition Commission (CCP) completed a Phase-I review and authorized the transaction. The deal transfers control of Novartis Pharma (Pakistan) Limited fr...

Trust, Safety, and Shared Ownership – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1182

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Trust, Safety, and Shared Ownership – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1182 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1182 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: Andres Ayrton Credit: fauxels Credit: Karola G Preamble This blog post is inspired by a quote taken from Corey Blake of https://roundtablecompanies.com . The quote is “People can’t own their 50% until they feel safe that the other party will own theirs too.” Trust, Safety, and Shared Ownership: The Hidden Equation Behind Every Relationship In every professional or personal relationship, we like to believe that fairness is simple. Each person does their part, contributes their share, and together things work. Yet, in reality, collaboration, whether between two people, teams, or entire organizations, often falters not because people won’t do the...

nternational Atomic Energy Agency Annual Report 2024 – Key Points – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1181

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International Atomic Energy Agency Annual Report 2024 – Key Points – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1181 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1181 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: EG Credit: Hassan Ahmad Credit: Vladimir Sladek Preamble This blog post is based on the Annual Report 2024 of International Atomic Energy Agency, presented to UN General Assembly in October 2025. Link to report at the end. IAEA 2024: From Peaceful Uses to Climate, Security and Development The IAEA is often associated with nuclear safeguards and non-proliferation. But the Agency’s 2024 review shows its scope increasingly reaches into clean energy, climate mitigation, health, food security, technical cooperation and global development. Here are the major take-aways: Expanding Technical Cooperation & Development...

ROI of Executive Coaching – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 1180

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ROI of Executive Coaching – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 1180 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 1180 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: Sean P. Twomey Credit: Jacqueline Goncalves Credit: Joel Santos Credit: Lubomir Satkos Preamble This blog post is based on the insights from an INSEAD article. Link to report at the end. Beyond ROI: Why Executive Coaching Must Focus on Behavioral Change, Not Just Numbers When organizations invest in executive coaching, the first question is nearly always: What’s the ROI? How many extra units of profit, how much improvement in leadership scores, what increment in productivity can be traced back to six-or-twelve months of coaching? The INSEAD article pushes back hard against this numbers-first mindset. It argues that effective coaching is about transformati...

Gallup® – World Emotional Health Report 2025 – Part 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1179

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Gallup® – World Emotional Health Report 2025 – Part 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1179 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1179 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: Chris Wade Ntezicimpa Credit: Elina Fairytale Credit: Rene Terp Preamble Gallup® State of the World’s Emotional Health 2025. [Quote] In a world increasingly marked by political, social and emotional fragmentation, the responsibility to safeguard health has never been more urgent. At the World Health Summit, our leitmotif for 2025 is clear: Taking Responsibility for Health in a Fragmenting World. This principle recognizes that health is not only about medicine or policy; it is also about the emotional fabric that holds societies together.  This 2-part blog post is based on the insights from the above report; Pakistan pers...

Gallup® – World Emotional Health Report 2025 – Part 1 - Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1178

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Gallup® – World Emotional Health Report 2025 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1178 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1178 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: Altea Alessandroni Credit: Amim Kashmiri Credit: Jep Gambardella Credit: Ron Lach Preamble Gallup® State of the World’s Emotional Health 2025. [Quote] In a world increasingly marked by political, social and emotional fragmentation, the responsibility to safeguard health has never been more urgent. At the World Health Summit, our leitmotif for 2025 is clear: Taking Responsibility for Health in a Fragmenting World. This principle recognizes that health is not only about medicine or policy; it is also about the emotional fabric that holds societies together.  This first State of the World’s Emotional Health report makes...