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  Post COVID Strategies – Part VI – Sum Up  – Blog Post #367 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #367. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by 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 .   Continued from Previous…… We have looked at various strategies in this series. In this last part, we sum it up and conclude this discussion. COVID is a complex event which has affected all segments and facets of life. An untouched area would be hard to find. At individual level, it affected us emotionally, mentally, psychologically, physically, spiritually and financially. Some people took it very seriously, isolated themselves completely, suspended all social activities and literally went into imprisonment. Others took it more lightly. All th...

Post COVID Strategies – Part II – Blog Post #363 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #363. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by 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 .   Continued from Previous…… In continuation with the economic impact, we talk next about stimulus packages. What was mentioned in Part I was about providing relief. Providing relief is not the same as stimulating or triggering the commercial activity. STIMULUS PACKAGES Our focus shall remain Pharma and we see what kind of stimulus packages may be considered. There is a general perception that Pharma Industry suffered less as compared to most other businesses, but this statement does not hold true when we look deeper. Pharmaceutical products may be broadly divided int...

Women Leadership during COVID19 Crisis – Blog Post #354 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #354. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by 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 . A very interesting study has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology very recently. [the reference appears at the end]. The study has been conducted by Kayla Sergent and   Alexander D. Stajkovic and is titled ‘ Women’s leadership is associated with fewer deaths during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative and qualitative analyses of United States governors. ’ Leadership is important at all times, but it becomes critical at the times of crisis. COVID19 is the biggest crisis since World War II and has already caused a whole lot of physical, social, psy...

What’s happening on WhatsApp? – Blog Post #351 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #351 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by 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 .   WhatsApp is probably used more in Pakistan than any other country. Chinese use WeChat; Zalo and Viber are popular in some Southeast Asian countries, and there are other platforms also. I am not sure about India what is popular there. I can safely say that the way Pakistanis have discovered WhatsApp, few countries would have. Another interesting aspect is that uneducated, less educated and educated people are all riding on it with the same ease. Come Corona, and it brought a new wave of WhatsApp along with it. In the final analysis, it is still not clear which has bee...

Challenges of Present Times Part III – Blog Post #350 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #350 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by 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 .   Continued from Previous…… People Challenges People are part of organization and both are interdependent on one another for existence. People related economic challenges are loss of current income, loss of future income, loss of current, loss of future benefits, longevity of job, Health and Safety. Loss of income – those who were asked to stay at home unpaid or those who were laid off lost income immediately. They may be taken back on the same job later, with the same pay or they may be asked to come back at reduced pay, or they may not be asked to come back. ...

Challenges of Present Times Part II – Blog Post #349 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #349 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by 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 .   Continued from Previous…… Economic Challenges In Part I, we talked about Organizational Challenges. Here we talk about Economic challenges. The reason for taking it up separately are as follows. 1.      Economic challenges are both organization-related and people-related 2.      For organizations, economic challenges are of two main types. a.      Maintaining inflow of revenue/ cashflow b.      Keeping expenses in control The first is not entirely in own control; the second possibly...

Challenges of Present Times Part I – Blog Post #348 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #348 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by 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 .   There are no two opinions about the fact that these are trying times. I would like to write about it in three heads; organizational challenges, economic challenges, and people challenges.  Organizational Challenges The organizational challenges are unprecedented. They had not faced such issues before. Particularly in Pakistan, where the average age of most businesses is 20-30 years, this is all so very new. We shall see what has changed in this time. Work from Home – many organizations allowed their employees to work from home, those who could. It applied ...