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Kindness and Generosity in Management – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #931 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #931 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: fauxels Credit: Polina Zimmerman Credit: Theo Decker Being kind is certainly better than being unkind. In personal relationships and philanthropy, people may go overboard in being kind, and are not judged. However, when it comes to management and business, kindness is viewed differently.  Our conventional image of the owner boss is the guy who stands with a pipe in mouth, hands in pocket and a stern look at the face. We have heard real life success stories of too many people who were successful because they were tough. These include kings and queens, sailors and adventurers, warriors and conquerors, and founders of large corporations. Apparently...

Breaking News – Department of Justice USA Sues Apple – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #930 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #930 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Apple I Apple II Apple CEO - Tim Cook I write about business, working people, management, organizations, and business tools and environment in a broad-based manner to cover multiple dimensions. Here is a breaking news from the USA. Backgrounder Apple Computer Inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, in California, USA by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in partnership with Ronald Wayne. Their vision was to change the way people viewed computers. Their first product was Apple I, a computer designed and hand-built entirely by Wozniak. To finance its creation, Jobs sold his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator. Steve Jobs ...

New Drugs Approvals – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #929 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #929 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Mikhail Nilov Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Credit: Polina Tankilevitch Periodically, I gather information and write a blog post about approval of new drugs in the USA, because it leads in the research, discovery, and commercialization of new, research products. Even if a pharmaceutical product is first registered in Europe, it is inevitably applied to USFDA for approval. USA also leads because it is the single largest market in the global pharma market. US accounts for about 47% of the world pharmaceutical market which is currently estimated to be about US$ 1.2 trillion. You can have an idea of the size.  The list of new drugs/ newer uses of existing drugs is given bel...

Snapshot of Future Organizations – What Leaders Should Do – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #928 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #928 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com . Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Andrea Piacquadio Credit: Javon Swaby Credit: Mo Eid This post is based on a very interesting article written by Sandra Durth, Bryan Hancock, Dana Maor, and Alex Sukharevsky – Link at the end. Generative AI is expected to have a highly significant impact on organizations and the economy over the next decade. The technology is accessible to everyone, even for free use, and is so easy to use that anyone with little or no formal training can use it. It is being embedded into everything, emails, word processing, meeting software, and so on. It means that the technology is poised to transform the way people work. Mckinsey research s...

Impact of Generative AI on Office Work – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #927 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #927 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com . Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Michelangelo Buonaratti Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Credit: Polina Zimmerman Credit: Tara Winstead The onslaught of Generative Artificial Intelligence – Gen AI is so powerful that virtually all areas of life are being/going to be impacted. We need to talk about it, discuss it at every forum, and take steps to incorporate Gen AI into our business operations and a wide range of other areas. It is such a sad commentary that with every major development in the world, Pakistan slides back even further. Our organizations get back further into their conventional ways of working and close the doors so that the development will not reach them. There is a famou...

Relationship between People Growth and Organizations Growth – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #926 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #926 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com . Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Edmond Dantès Credit: Kindel Media Credit: Polina Zimmerman The dynamic interplay between individual growth and organizational development has long been a subject of discussion among the management theorists. It's a classic chicken-and-egg scenario: which comes first, the growth of employees or the growth of organizations? In this blogpost, I shall try to look into this intricate, yet inevitable relationship. My view is that it is a symbiotic relationship, which means that both parties should benefit. I also argue that one cannot happen without the other, and if it does, the growth may not be lasting. Let us explore the p...

Employees’ Burnout – Demands, Enablers, Solutions – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #925 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #925 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: Anna Tarazevich Credit: Karolina Grabowska Credit: Nataliya Vaitkevich This blogpost is based on research by McKinsey Health Institute, published in August 2023. MHI is a non-profit-generating entity within McKinsey & Co. Its mission is to catalyze the actions needed across continents, sectors, and communities to add quality to life which is already seeing relative longevity across the world.  McKinsey Health Institute (MHI) survey included exploration of Demands and Enablers. Demands Demands are workplace factors that require sustai...

Employees’ Burnout – Pakistan Situation – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #924 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #924 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: Artem Podrez Credit: Mikhail Nilov Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko Employees Burnout Situation in Pakistan Pakistan was not included in the study done by McKinsey. However, our local reseachers have published their work in this area. A study 1 done by A. Khalid et al, and published in Frontiers, measured the stress level in employees of banking sector. Data was collected from 1,778 male and female patients. Male employees were more tilted towards rewards, while female employees demanded better working environment. Job burnout was measured on several param...

Employees’ Burnout – Presentation, Incidence – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #923 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #923 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: Mikhail Nilov Credit: Nataliya Vaitkevich Credit: Tara Winstead This blogpost is based on research by McKinsey Health Institute, published in August 2023. MHI is a non-profit-generating entity within McKinsey & Co. Its mission is to catalyze the actions needed across continents, sectors, and communities to add quality to life which is already seeing relative longevity across the world. Additional material is used from Mental Health UK, Burnout Report 2024. What is Employee Burnout? Burnout is a state of physical and emotional exhaustion. It ca...