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Emotional Profiles of Bosses – The ‘Managing’ Type – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #907 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #907 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from 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. Credit: Lukas Credit: Sora Shimazaki Credit: Yan Krukau Today, we shall talk about the bosses who are always ‘managing’; means they do it themselves and ask others the same. I have been hearing in so many cases from so many people the same phrase, “please manage somehow”. It is an unhappy situation when a senior person asks his subordinates to just do it somehow. The implied sense is to do it by hook or crook. It means that the manager either does not have capability to give worthwhile input to his junior, or he is not doing it. In both cases, the manager is caus

Emotional Profiles of Bosses – Power-Seeker Type – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #906 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #906 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from 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. Credit: cottonbro studios Credit: Edmond Dantès Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko Today, let us talk about the bosses who are always seeking power; power over their teams and even beyond, power over resources, and power over environment. It is a difficult type because stopping them earns their wrath and changing them is almost impossible. Nothing is more powerfully addictive than ‘power’. We see that big businessmen, when they have amassed enough wealth, feel that money alone gives power to a limited extent; they are helpless in front of an SHO, or an Excise Inspector, o

Emotional Profiles of Bosses – Self-Promoting Type – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #905 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #905 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from 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. Credit: Press Master Credit: Hamid Tajik Credit: RDNE Stock Project Today, let us talk about the bosses who are almost always self-promoting themselves. Self-promoting bosses exhibit certain behaviors that revolve around promoting themselves, enhancing their image, and advancing their career at the expense of others or the organization. Recognizing these behaviors is essential for employees to navigate their professional environment effectively. Here are some common traits and behaviors of self-promoting bosses. • Taking Credit for Others' Achievements – Se

Emotional Profiles of Bosses – Overly Self-Protecting Type – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #904 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #904 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from 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. Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Credit: RDNE Stock Project Let us talk about the bosses who are almost always considering their personal safety first. It is not that they are in some kind of danger; they are not, but they still exhibit overt need for their own safety. This behavior is displayed in various forms. Self-protector bosses are driven by a strong need for self-preservation; therefore, they often exhibit characteristics that prioritize personal safety and distance themselves emotionally from their followers. This leadership style ca

Emotional Profiles of Bosses – Emotional Immaturity – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #903 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #903 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from 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. Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Credit: Andrea Piacquadio Credit: Sora Shimazaki Let us talk about bosses.  For all subordinates, anywhere in the world, bosses are the most favorite topic. Bosses are discussed in great detail, from their appearance to their habits to styles to peculiar behaviors etc. ‘Bosses bashing’ is also a favorite pastime during group meetings.  I can talk authentically about Pharma industry which has been my core work during the last forty-seven years. We talked about bosses on every available occasion, and so is the case in all companies. The grea

Growing Impact of Generative AI on Healthcare – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #902 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #902 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from 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. Credit: This is Engineering Credit: Michelangelo Buonarotti Credit: Google Deepmind It is true that we are seriously behind in development and the gap between our country and the developed world is widening with passing time. However, in the digital space, we have generally been able to stay close to major developments. The irony is that the ills of technology reach us immediately, while the benefits take much longer and may or may not arrive fully. An important factor is that we prefer to use technology which comes free of cost, because we hate to pay for things we l

Why We Do Not Do What We Say – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #901 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #901 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from 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. Credit: Anete Lusina Credit: Alex Green Credit: Ozan Çulha Often, while we display good intentions and talk good things, our actual behavior does not match with it. The alarming thing is that many a times we do not even realize this contradiction.  The phenomenon where people's actions do not align with their words, despite having good intentions, can be attributed to several psychological factors. Understanding these factors can shed light on the complexities of human behavior and communication. Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) said that only about one-tenth of our mind is conscious,

Ethylene Glycol in Cough Syrups Tragedy – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #900 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #900 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from 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. Credit: cottonbro studio Credit: Jonathan Borba Credit: Los Muertos Crew Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko Two days ago, Reuters published the following news in Pakistan. Pakistan seizes poisonous solvent used in cough syrup By Asif Shahzad January 11, 202411:37 PM GMT+5Updated 2 days ago ISLAMABAD, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Pakistan has seized a batch of contaminated propylene glycol solvent that was labelled as manufactured by Dow Chemical, Thailand, the nation's drug regulatory authority said on Thursday. The move comes as authorities have identified toxic propylene glycol used i