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Brain Drain from Pakistan – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1327 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1327 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Serap Ezgi Preamble This article draws on DevelopmentAid's July 2024 analysis of brain drain in developing countries – by Ilan Ilasco, Pakistan's Economic Survey 2024–25, and research on the economic effects of skilled migration. The recommendations are an application of these insights to Pakistan's circumstances. Link to article at the end. Pakistan’s Brain Drain: When a Nation Educates Its People for the World A country’s greatest wealth is not its minerals, agricultural land, factories, or financial reserves. Its most valuable asset is its people, their knowledge, skills, creativity, experience, and capacity to solve problems. Yet, many devel...

The New Role of Mentoring – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1326 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1326 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Vitaly Gariev Credit: August de Richelieu Credit: Theo Decker Preamble This post is based on an INSEAD article. Link at the end. The New Role of Mentoring: Helping Leaders Manage Anxiety and Uncertainty In a world of rapid change, leaders do not always need someone to tell them what to do. They need someone who helps them think clearly when the answers are not obvious. A promotion is usually seen as a reward for professional achievement. A new leadership position offers greater authority, wider influence and opportunities to make a difference. Yet behind the excitement often lies an uncomfortable reality: the higher the responsibility, the greater the u...

State of World Emotional Health 2026 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1325 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1325 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Artur Skoniecki Credit: Emiliano Vittoriosi Credit: Maria Clara Alvarenga Preamble This post is based on Gallup® 2026 report on the State of World Emotional Health. Link at the end. The World Is Emotionally Strained: What Gallup’s 2026 Report Reveals About How We Feel We often measure the progress of societies through economic growth, technological innovation, educational attainment and life expectancy. Yet another important measure receives far less attention: how people actually feel as they go about their lives. Are they worried, stressed, angry or sad? Do they experience enjoyment, feel respected, laugh with others or find something inter...

Pursuing Professional Growth is not Optional – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1324 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1324 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Ketut Subiyanto Credit: Alena Darmel Credit: Misbaa Eri Preamble Many Professionals think they can stop growing after a certain point in career. They think they have achieved enough and should be contented with that. I contest this view. Professional Growth Is Not Optional: Evolve or Risk Becoming Irrelevant Success is not a destination. It is the result of continuously developing the capabilities, judgment and adaptability needed to remain valuable in a changing world. Many professionals reach a stage in their careers when they begin to feel comfortable. They have accumulated experience, established a reputation, developed a reliable...

Queen Bee Syndrome at Workplace – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 1323 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 1323 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Cedric Fauntleroy Preamble This blogpost is based on key insights from an INSEAD article by Henrike Gueth, Nicolas Bastoli, and Winnie Jiang. Link at the end. Queen Bee Syndrome: When Women Hold Other Women Back at Work There is an uncomfortable phenomenon in organizations. Some women who have successfully reached senior positions may become less supportive of other women trying to advance. They may be reluctant to mentor younger women, exclude them from influential networks, judge them more harshly, or become highly competitive with them. This behavior is commonly described as “Queen Bee Syndrome.” The term, however, can be misleading. It suggests ...

Rethink Gender-based Marketing – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1322 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1322 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Nothing Ahead Preamble Gaby Barrios’s TED Talk makes a deceptively simple argument: gender is often an easy marketing variable, but it is frequently a poor predictor of what people actually need or buy. Drawing on BCG work across more than 20 countries and roughly 100,000 “statistical tournaments,” she says gender emerged as the most useful variable for understanding consumer needs only about 5% of the time. Her broader recommendation is to move from demographic shortcuts toward needs, occasions, attitudes, behaviors and context. Stop Marketing to Men and Women. Start Marketing to Needs. What pharmaceutical marketers can learn from Gaby Barrios abo...

The Great Divide in Pakistan Pharma Market – Suggestions for Smaller Companies – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1321 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1321 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Shvets Production Preamble As shown in the last blog post, there is a great divide in the pharma market of Pakistan. I continuation with the previous blog post, here are some suggestions how smaller companies can get a decent foothold in the market. The Great Divide in Pakistan Pharma: How Smaller Companies Can Build a Respectable Foothold Pakistan's pharmaceutical market has a great divide. On one side are the large companies with substantial market shares, extensive product portfolios, strong distribution networks, large sales forces and well-established brands.On the other side are hundreds of smal...

Pakistan Pharma Market – Uneven Distribution and Its Impact on Competition and Strategy – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1320 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1320 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Elements Interactive Preamble A highly concentrated market creates winners, survivors, and a strategic problem for everyone else Pakistan's pharmaceutical market presents a fascinating paradox. On one side is an industry with hundreds of pharmaceutical companies, a large manufacturing base and a growing domestic demand for medicines. On the other is a market in which a relatively small number of companies capture the overwhelming majority of sales. Industry data has consistently shown this concentration. A 2023 VIS sector report estimated that the top 50 companies held nearly 90% of the marke...

Why Should Childhood Cancer Survival Depend on Where the Child is Born? – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1319 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1319 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Preamble This post is based on a World Health Organization Report.. Link at the end. WHO’s 2026 report, Measuring survival, driving change: advancing equity through the WHO Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer, examines one of the most striking inequalities in global health: children with cancer can face dramatically different chances of survival depending on where they live. The report introduces comparable five-year survival estimates for lymphoid leukaemia across 194 Member States and links better data to stronger policy and health-system action. WHO’s global target is at least 60% childh...