Pharma Veterans

Dear Pharma Veterans! The purpose of ‘Pharma Veterans’ is to share your wealth of knowledge and wisdom with others. And to create a movement to recognize and celebrate the Pharma Industry Professionals.  Pharma Veterans Blog  is published on WordPress, a top blog site on a dedicated URL  https://pharmaveterans.com/  .  Pharma Veterans Individual Profiles  are also published here. So are  Guest Blogs  of your stories, ideas and thoughts. Please send these to  asrar@asrarqureshi.com  . Please join the Community and Share. Back with my journey over the years…… I joined CCL in April 1999. Three months later, in July, it was discussed that a new team would be launched. It would have brand new products and all new staff. It was a major decision and was slated to have very important implications for future. We started working on selection of products. The selected products were assigned to product development departmen...

This ‘Guest Blog’ Post has been contributed by Mr. Hasan Jamal, a longtime veteran of Pharma Industry. The Guest Blog Posts are also published on  https://pharmaveterans.com  . You are welcome to contribute. You may write your own story or about some memorable events of your career or about Pharma Industry. Please send your posts to  asrar@asarqureshi.com Continued from last…… Infusing sense of Security and showing a clear career path Another up-hill task for me was to create the sense that we all belong to the Hoechst family and from time to time reassured them that the company has clear plans for growth for those who deliver, new products and projects are in the pipe-line, which are opportunities for the serious workers and achievers to grow with the company. Teams were made aware of certain plans for restructuring, few were already under-way. “As the marketing experts say, that there is a hierarchy of basic needs that people require before they can be moti...

This ‘Guest Blog’ Post has been contributed by Mr. Hasan Jamal, a longtime veteran of Pharma Industry. The Guest Blog Posts are also published on https://pharmaveterans.com . You are welcome to contribute. You may write your own story or about some memorable events of your career or about Pharma Industry. Please send your posts to asrar@asarqureshi.com Feather-in-Hat It was mid-eighties when I was assigned a special task (about which I briefly mentioned in my article published under blog # 3) by Mr. E. Heidkamp – Pharma Manager and was asked to relocate to Rawalpindi. In fact the successful completion of this task and a similar difficult and complicated situation that I faced at Faisalabad, were the achievements which gave me a great sense of satisfaction and were highly appreciated by high-ups in the company. These two low-performing headquarters were a real problem, where the company had already made several unsuccessful attempts to rectify the situation, and to make these tw...

Dear Pharma Veterans! The purpose of ‘Pharma Veterans’ is to share your wealth of knowledge and wisdom with others. And to create a movement to recognize and celebrate the Pharma Industry Professionals. Pharma Veterans Blog is published on WordPress, a top blog site on a dedicated URL https://pharmaveterans.com/ . Pharma Veterans Individual Profiles are also published here. So are Guest Blogs of your stories, ideas and thoughts. Please send these to asrar@asrarqureshi.com . Please join the Community and Share. My last two blog posts were about managers-turned-entrepreneurs. The topic generated a lot of interest because a very large number of managers, first line to senior most, have tried to do it. I discussed some patterns predicting failure and success of ventures. Here I give the important points again, together. Failure Patterns This is the typical story of a lot of managers, senior and junior, who go into their own business and lose. In my obser...