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Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post. Pharma Veterans shares the wealth of knowledge and wisdom of Veterans for the benefit of Pharma Community. Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. If you wish to share your stories, ideas and thoughts, please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Dear Colleagues and Friends! By the Grand Grace of Allah (SWT), I am proceeding for Hajj. In Sha Allah. Shall be back during First Week September. You shall be in my prayers. Please pray that Allah Blesses me with Focus, Energy and Submission. Aameen. Pharma Veterans Blog Posts will resume after my return. In Sha Allah.

Unlearning to Learn – Blog Post by Asrar Qureshi

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Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #228. Pharma Veterans shares the wealth of knowledge and wisdom of Veterans for the benefit of Pharma Community. Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. If you wish to share your stories, ideas and thoughts, please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Unlearning and Learning Learning is always incremental. It starts as soon as the senses start sensing and mind starts processing the sensory information. Learning initially occurs through touch, view and hearing. Reading comes much later. Children are like sponge. They have enormous capacity to absorb and it is naturally intended. They keep absorbing unbelievable amount of information from an extremely large number of sources. For them everything is new. Most of this learning is natural and ‘undirected’. As soon as the elders can, they start directing children. And B

Typical Management Styles in Pharma Industry (Part 4)– Blog Post by Asrar Qureshi

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Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #227. Pharma Veterans shares the wealth of knowledge and wisdom of Veterans for the benefit of Pharma Community. Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. If you wish to share your stories, ideas and thoughts, please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Continued from Previous…… The next management style seen in Pharma Managers is ‘The Selfish Big Brother’. Of all the Big Brothers, the Selfish Big Brother is mostly a dangerous character. We have seen Big Brother Managers evolving from Benevolent to Know-All to Autocratic already. In the same line this is the culmination point. The Selfish Big Brother The Selfish Big Brother is a dangerous character; more dangerous than a simply selfish boss. A selfish boss will do anything to get the object of his desire. He will not differentiate between good and bad, wrong and ri