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Eid ul Azha 2020 – Blog Post #362 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #362. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .   Eid ul Azha Mubarak !!! I pray that Allah Grants relief to all of us from difficulties. Aameen I pray that Allah Makes it easy for us to overcome losses. Aameen Eid ul Azha is here. Like Eid ul Fitr, this Eid is also shadowed by COVID19. I pass by two goat/cattle markets on the way to and from office. The number of visitors has been rising every day. The notice says ‘No Entry Without Mask – Fine for Violation Rs. 500’. The buyers are wearing masks diligently. I wish to raise few questions here. It is interesting to note that on every Eid ul Azha, lot of people spend a lot of time on haggling about

Post COVID Strategies - Part I – Blog Post #361 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #361. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .   Last night at midnight, another tenure of lockdown was clamped without prior warning. We wish so, but it may not be the last such episode. We are not seeing the end of COVID19 yet; we don’t even know when it will be. In this situation, saying Post-COVID strategies seems out of place. However, the inaction is even more out of place because nothing can wait indefinitely. Globally, every day, new ideas are generated, and new strategies are discussed. No one is sitting idle, waiting for pandemic to go away. We are also doing something, though it may not be as innovative or integrated as t

Some Observations about CVs – Blog Post #360 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #360. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . There is no denying the fact that Pakistan had a high rate of unemployment even prior to COVID19. What exactly is the situation now, is not yet documented. It is safe to assume it would be huge right now. For every available job, the number of applicants will be much higher as compared to what it was previously. Employment Opportunity is one part, employability is another. The candidate is finalized if the two things match. A CV is the first tool to throw light on the ‘employability’ and it is critical to the process. I am sharing some observations as a small fraction. It is with the view

Emotional Intelligence Primer – Blog Post #359 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #358. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .   Emotional Intelligence is about emotions. Though it is mostly studied in the context of work, but it is actually about feelings, personal and work. One major part is to be able to understand own self and its emotions because controlling these will bring control over others. Medical explanation besides, Emotions are talked about with reference to heart. The following poem and pictorials come from the fav Brain Pickings. The poem is apparently written and drawn for children, but it is equally, if not more, applicable to adults as well. [quote] “How is your heart?” I recently asked a frie

Larger than Life – Blog Post #358 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #358. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .   On 17 July 2020, John Lewis passed away in the USA. John Robert Lewis  ( born February 21, 1940) was an American politician and civil rights leader who served in the United States House of Representatives for  Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020. Lewis served as the Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966. Lewis was one of the "Big Six" leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington. He fulfilled many key roles in the civil rights movement and its actions to end legalized racial segregation in

Handling Diversity at Workplace III – Blog Post #357 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #357. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .   Continued from Previous …… In continuation of Openness, Fairness, Merit and Equal Opportunities, the next tool for handling workplace diversity is Controlling Threats. Controlling Threats – It may sound strange, but the workplaces are fraught with threats of various kinds. The major kind of threats include threats to respect, threats to career, threats to job, threats to income, threats to honor and threats even to life. These threats are relevant because these are usually based on some diversity factor. Threats to respect are usually faced by lower income, lower position staff.

Handling Diversity at Workplace II – Blog Post #356 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #356. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Continued from Previous …… In continuation of Openness and Fairness, the next tool for handling workplace diversity is merit. Merit – Merit is a comprehensive term comprising of several factors. During education, merit is simply based on the exam performance; no one sees how the results were obtained. In the workplace however, the merit is a combination of competence, performance, results, capability to learn, capacity to retain, and possibility for growth. You may say this is a long list and no one is actually going to such length to assess merit. To understand better, we should s