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Smart People in Wrong Careers – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1226 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1226 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: @coldbeer Credit: Mizuno K Credit: George Milton Preamble This blog post is based on a recent McKinsey article. Link at the end. Why Smart People End Up in the Wrong Careers – And What Leaders and Professionals Can Do About It In today’s rapidly changing world of work, something curious, and costly, is happening. High-achieving, capable, intelligent professionals are often in careers that feel wrong for them. They may be successful on paper, receiving promotions, recognition, and strong performance evaluations, yet feel a profound sense of misalignment between what they do and who they are. A recent McKinsey Talks Talent conversation explores this p...

Female CEOs Shortage – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1225 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1225 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: Alena Darmel Credit: Theo Decker Preamble This blog post is based on a recent INSEAD article. Link at the end. Why the Female CEO Shortage Persists – and What Leaders Must Do About It Despite decades of diversity commitments, women remain dramatically under-represented in the world’s top corporate seat. Even in major markets in 2025, women hold only a small fraction of CEO roles across leading companies such as the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250, a stagnation that persists despite a clear pipeline of capable female leaders. This gap isn’t due to a lack of talent. High-performing women are already delivering results at senior levels. The real challenge lies in how org...

World’s Most Important Problem Part II – Gallup® Report – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1224 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1224 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: Ghulam Rasool Preamble This 2-part blog series is based on a recent Gallup® report published in February 2026. What the World Is Really Saying to Its Leaders: Trust, Generations, and the Road Ahead In Part I, we explored how people across 107 countries identify the economy, work, politics, and security as the world’s most important problems, based on insights from the Gallup World’s Most Important Problem report. Those findings revealed a powerful truth: people judge leadership not by abstract progress, but by lived experience. In this second installment, we go deeper — into who is worried, why trust is eroding, how generat...

World’s Most Important Problem – Gallup® Report – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1223 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1223 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: Hong Majaya Credit: Renni Tony Zohari Preamble This 2-part blog series is based on a recent Gallup® report published in February 2026. Part I: What the World Tells Its Leaders – The Economy, Work, and Security as Global Priorities Human beings react first to their lived experience. Regardless of geography, culture, or political system, the issues that most affect people’s daily lives shape their perceptions of national challenges and expectations of leaders. Gallup’s World’s Most Important Problem report — based on interviews with adults in 107 countries, gives leaders the raw materials to understand public sentiment in 2026. This ...

Leadership Lessons from an Athlete – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1222 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1222 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: Andrea Piacquadio Credit: Run For FFPWU Credit: Timothy George Preamble This blog post is based on a McKinsey article. Link at the end. From Olympic Gold to Blockbuster Drugs: What Pharmaceutical Leaders Can Learn from an Elite Athlete The pharmaceutical industry is often described as a marathon, but in truth, it is closer to an Olympic triathlon. It demands endurance in research, speed in execution, precision in quality, and resilience under relentless regulatory and market pressure. Few careers illustrate these demands better than that of Olympic gold medalist Alistair Brownlee, whose insights, shared in a conversation hosted by McKinsey ...

Pakistan Job Market Outlook 2026 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1221 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1221 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: Karolina Grabowska Credit: Mariana Zuzzana Preamble This blog post is based on Pakistan-specific outlook on the job market for 2026, building on the global trends and expert insights from the DevelopmentAid article but grounded in Pakistan’s economic, demographic, and labor realities. Pakistan Job Market 2026: Challenges, Opportunities, and How to Prepare As the world enters 2026, Pakistan’s job market is undergoing transformational shifts, influenced by technology, demographic trends, sector changes, education dynamics, and economic pressures. Unlike in some high-income economies, Pakistan’s labor landscape is shaped not only by automation and A...