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Fear of Letting Go and What to Do – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1025 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1025 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 our contributions here. Preamble In one of the organizations, I had a colleague who had been working on the documentation of export shipments, and he was good at it. During that time, he also somehow got the opportunity to do business communication with couple of customers abroad and did it well. My assessment was that he had good talent for business, and he should shift to that area of work. It would be good for his future growth because documentation was almost a dead-end job. We talked in detail, and he agreed, but he said he would do both for some time. Understanding his fear of letting go, I agreed. Meanwhile, we hired someone for documentation. However, he kept sticking to the

Strategies to Help Fulfil Commitments – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1024 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1023 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 our contributions here. Credit: Binti Malu Credit: Michael Burrows Credit: Mikhail Nilov Preamble Recently, I read an article by Michael Blanding in Harvard Business Working Knowledge which led me to study which inspired this blogpost. The findings of study, or rather set of studies’ have been reported by the researchers Ariella Kristal and Julian Zlatev. The report is titled ‘Going beyond the ‘Self’ in Self Control: Interpersonal Consequences of Commitment Strategy Use’. It raises some very important points, just a few of which I shall share. Being copyrighted, I shall not reproduce from the study but shall take the primary idea and present in my own words. Commitment The dictio

Thoughts on Leadership Teams in Pharmaceutical Companies II – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1023 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1023 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 our contributions here. Credit: Antoni Shkraba Credit: Vlada Karpovich Credit: Werner Pfenning Collective Accountability I finished the last post on the point that collective accountability should also be considered along with individual accountability.  Building collective accountability in the system will require that both individual and team goals be assigned to team members. Team goals are those which can only be achieved as a group and not as an individual. For example, if the organization plans to introduce certain values in its culture, it is a goal for the entire leadership team, and they must work together to achieve it. On the material side, if the