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New Insights on Performance Management – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #996 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #996 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: Ahmed Credit: Alena Shekhovtcova Credit: Alwyn Dias Credit: Khris Kunta kUkU This Blogpost is based on a data published by McKinsey recently. Which came out of survey of 1200 employees at various levels in 11 countries across continents. Link at the end. Performance management stands on four pillars: goal setting, performance review, ongoing feedback, and rewards. Performance management systems are therefore, designed along these lines. Many years ago, the MNC I was working for, started MBO – Management By Objectives. We got training on how to make objectives that would be measurable, and how to give weight to them. As years passed by, many organiz...

Understanding Women’s Health Gap – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #995 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #995 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: Cedric Fauntleroy Credit: Ivan Samkov Credit: Michelle Leman 26 August was Women’s Equality Day. Their health gap is a major challenge in achieving equality. Links of resources for this post at the end. Women live longer than men, but they spend 25 percent more of that time in poor health. Closing this gap can add more healthy years to their lives. It must be recognized that women’s health is not just a scaled down version of men’s health, but that it is biologically distinct and different. McKinsey Health Institute – MHI – in collaboration with World Economic Forum, has done detailed research and analysis on country-wise situation of women’s health, the...

Impact of Childhood Use of Tablets/ Screens – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #994 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #994 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: Unknown Credit: Marta Wave Credit: Eze Joshua Credit: Amina Filkins This blogpost is inspired by the study published in JAMA Pediatrics on August 12, 2024. It is an original investigation, and the authors are Caroline Fitzpatrick PhD, Pedro Mario Pan PhD, Annie Lemieux, MSc; et al. Other studies are also quoted. Links at the end. A New Study Question: Do higher levels of early-childhood tablet use undermine emotional regulation, or is the other way round?  Findings: In this study, child tablet use at age 3.5 years was associated with more expressions of anger and frustration by the age of 4.5 years. Child proneness to anger/ frustration ...

Pharma & the Future: Powered by Partnership & Patient Experience – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 993 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 993 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. Image Created with Microsoft Designer Image Created with Microsoft Designer Image Created with Microsoft Designer This blogpost is a summary of the new White-paper on the subject of patients’ engagement with Pharma Industry. Link at the end. [Quote] Pharma has long been guilty of putting profit before people, but that's beginning to change. While there's still a long road ahead, patient-engagement efforts are steadily improving. [Unquote]. Pharma & Patient USA 2024 shall be held on October 15-16, 2024 at Westin Boston Seaport. The event is organized by Reuters. Preamble The pharmaceutical industry is undergoing a...

Applying for Jobs Where We Don’t Qualify – Pros and Cons – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 992 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 992 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. Image Created with Microsoft Designer Image Created with Microsoft Designer Put up any job ad in a newspaper, and it is likely the HR will receive hundreds of doses k., Via Email and post. They find it hard to screen this load and therefore depute the junior-most (mostly) staff to do the first screening. She/he rejects a huge number of applications on the basis of primary factors like education, age, experience, or even gender. If such a large-scale culling is not applied, it is found that lot of unrelated candidates have applied. A finding from a Hewlett Packard internal report, that has been quoted in lean In. The Confidence Code, and a h...

Why Most Plans Never Materialize and What to Do? – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 991 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 991 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. Image Created with Microsoft Designer Image Created with Microsoft Designer Image Created with Microsoft Designer Image Created with Microsoft Designer The basic concept of this blogpost is taken from the book review of ‘Sidetracked’’ written by Harvard Professor Francesca Gino. The content is mine. Plans often go awry due to various internal and external factors that can interfere with our intentions and ability to follow through. Understanding these factors and developing strategies to cope with them can increase the likelihood of achieving our goals. This is seen most often in individual, personal plans. Corporate plans also get derailed and det...

Health Hazards of Social Media for Adolescents – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #990 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #990 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: Mary Taylor Credit: Jessica Ticozzelli Credit: Budgeron Bach Credit: Andrea Piacquadio This Blog Post is mainly based on an interview with US Surgeon General, published in Journal of American Medicine Association – JAMA on August 9, 2024. Link at the end. The Surgeon General of the United States is the operational head of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and thus the leading spokesperson on matters of public health in the federal government of the United States. The Office of Surgeon General periodically issues health warnings, the best-known example of which is warning label that has been present on all packages ...

77 Years of Independence – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #989 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #989 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: M. Khawar Nazir Credit: M. Khawar Nazir Congratulations, Compliments, and Felicitations to All Pakistanis on Independence Day Wherever We Are Surely, it is time to celebrate. Independence is among the greatest blessings people can have. The people of United India got their independence from the British on 14th August 1947. Indians celebrate independence on 15th August, just to keep themselves distinguished. If people of United India had come together, they could eliminate British rule much earlier, but as it happens, they saw their own destruction and did not take action. The fate favors the mighty and it did. A handful of British ruled millions of Indian people...

Quitting Tobacco Use – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #988 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #988 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. Alexandar Andreev Credit: Antoni Shkraba Credit: Eren Özdemir Credit: Thibault Luycx World Health Organization has issued “WHO clinical treatment guideline for tobacco cessation in adults” in July 2024. Link at the end. I was a good (read heavy) smoker for many years before I quit about nineteen years ago. Of course, I still carry a soft corner for smokers, particularly, when I see them being restricted from all public places like restaurants, parks, hotels, airports, and so on. Life is not enjoyable for smokers anymore. There was a time when tobacco chewing was part of culture and lifestyle, and smoking was iconic and related to real men. Almost all adults and elderly men ...