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Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #762 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome 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. Photo Credit: Nataliya Vaitkevich Photo Credit: Sora Shimazaki Continued from Previous…… We continue our discussion on tired organizations, which are those who have been left behind in the process of progress. Time Sensitivity The importance of time changed in so many ways in the world. There was a time when things happened in millions of years as science tells us, then it started happening in millennials, then in centuries, then years, then months, and now we count time in days, hours, and minutes. All international sports competitions use a timer of 1/100 of seconds, and the irony is that we buy time from mobile carriers by minutes (just see

Tired Organizations – Reasons & Cures – Part 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #761 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #761 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome 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. Blackberry Bold Photo Credit: Karolina Grabowska Nokia 3310 Photo Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko Continued from Previous…… We continue our discussion on tired organizations, which are those who have been left behind in time for various reasons, who now move slowly and painfully, and who appear to have lost hope also. The pace of change is fast and furious; individuals or organizations who do not move at the same pace keep falling behind. We take up the next reason which is so critical that it became the undoing of many huge businesses. Failure to See the Coming Ch

Tired Organizations – Reasons & Cures – Part 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #760 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #760 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome 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. Photo Credit: cottonbro studio Photo Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Justice M. Rustam Kayani (1902 – 1962) was among the most well-known and well-respected jurists who served as Chief Justice of West Pakistan from 1958 to 1962. At that time West Pakistan and East Pakistan were two units of Pakistan; the provinces were not recognized as separate administrative structures. Justice Kayani is known for his wit, his uprightness, his principles, and his opposition to Ayub Khan’s dictatorship. His following verses are known to so many even if they did not know who said it. اک

Divide & Rule OR Unite & Succeed? – Part 3 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #759 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #759 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome 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. Photo Credit: Alena Darmel Photo Credit: Edmond Dantès Photo Credit: RF ._. studio Photo Credit: RODNAE Production Unite & Succeed It is a given that everyone wants to be successful and tries to do anything to achieve it. The pathways are different, and the choice is made as per the orientation of the individual. People try to choose the shorter cut of Divide & Rule which may help to achieve personal success though it may not always be long-lived. Unite & Succeed approach is that we take everyone along and achieve success together. I would like to p

Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #758 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome 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. Photo Credit: Noor Aldin Alwan Photo Credit: Quang Nguyen Vinh Photo Credit: Ahmed akacha As explained in the last post, Divide & Rule comes primarily from the owners for reasons discussed. Ironically, the employees also follow the same tactics to strengthen their hold over the organization.  The desire to hold on to the place and position goes back to ancient times when the appointments and dismissals happened at the whim of the ruler and in seconds. There was no merit in these decisions; just the thought which could go either way. Our entire history has been of slavery and subjugation. Pakistan became free as a country in 1947, but the p

Divide & Rule OR Unite & Succeed? – Part 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #757 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #757 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome 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. Photo Credit: Fox Photo Credit: Keira Burton Photo Credit: William Fortunato ‘Divide and Rule ‘is a strategy or policy of maintaining control over a group of people by encouraging divisions and conflicts between them. This tactic is often used by those in power to prevent unity among the subjugated group, making it easier to maintain their control. Divide and Rule in business comes from two sides: one, business owners; two, senior managers. Business owners have an innate desire to keep tight control over the organization.  Most of them suffer from insecurity, d

New Pill Promises Relief From Constipation Without Drug – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #756 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #756 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome 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. Photo Credit: Bess Hamiti Photo Credit: cottonbro studio Photo Credit: Pixabay US Food & Drug Administration has approved a new pill for relief from chronic constipation. The pill is called VIBRANT, and has been developed by the company Vibrant Gastro Inc. The pill was approved by USFDA in August last year but has become available to patients now. The patients will take the pill at bedtime daily. The pill should pass through stomach and small intestine and finally reach large intestine in about 14 hours. It will stimulate the nerve cells in the large i

More Facts About Pfizer-BioNTech Covid Vaccine – Last Part – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #755 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #755 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome 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. Photo Credit: EVG Kowalievska Photo Credit: Ketut Subiyanto Photo Credit: Max Fischer An excerpt from a study published on 5th January 2023 in BMC Infectious Diseases Journal. The study was conducted in the Palestinian territory.  [Quote] Approximately one-third of participants reported no adverse effects after receiving the first, second, or third dose of the Pfizer vaccine, with 34%, 33.6%, and 32.5%, respectively. Participants who received more than one dose experienced more side effects. The most commonly reported adverse effects were fever, chills,

More Facts About Pfizer-BioNTech Covid Vaccine – Part 3 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #754 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #754 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome 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. Photo Credit: Anna Shvets Photo Credit: August de Richelieu Photo Credit: Nataliya Vaitkevich NINE PAGES REFERENCE There is much talk about 9 pages of side effects. This comes from Pfizer/FDA document titled ‘BNT 162b2 – 5.3.6 – Cumulative Analysis of Adverse Events Reports. The 9-pages are Appendi1. LIST OF ADVERSE EVENTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST. It is a lot of medical terminology which is not relevant for non-medical people. You may follow the link to see these adverse events. In all, it is a 38-page document (including 9 pages). I shall give some of these h

More Facts About Pfizer BioNTech Covid Vaccine – Part 3 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #754 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #754 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome 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. Photo Credit: Artem Podrez Photo Credit: Nandhu Kumar USFDA maintains that currently available data for Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines shows that the vaccines are safe by and large. A CDC study published in Lancet Infectious Diseases says that self-reported data was reviewed by the researchers. Patients were advised to report adverse events on two systems: VAERS – Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, and v-safe tracker. Of the 340,522 reports made to VAERS, 92% were non-serious, 6.6% were serious, and 1.3% were deaths. The most common adverse even