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Creating Great Workplaces – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #967 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 967 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: Bali Demiri Credit: Ivan Samkov Credit: Ivan Samkov Credit: Jopwell Help for this article has been taken from Boston Consulting Group research, link at the end. Preamble Workplace is where we spend most of our active life. Whatever happens at the workplace impacts us deeply. As has been recognized the world over, work becomes our identity also. When someone loses a job, the loss is multidimensional; it is income, loss of face, fear of future, and loss of identity. The workplaces must be great places to be, but alas! These are not in most cases. Talking of pharma companies in Pakistan, due to uneven distribution of business, the best can be expected only from the...

What Kind of Boss Would You Like to Be?  – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 964 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 963 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: August de Richelieu Credit: RDNE Stock project Credit: RDNE Stock project Opening Statement Boss is a position, not a title, and it is found at all levels of society. The lady at the house is the boss of domestic help, the husband is the boss of the lady of the house, the contractor is the boss of labor, the shopkeeper is the boss of his staff, and the list goes on. What I am saying is that the behavior of bosses should be seen in this context. Having roamed around in several countries on business, I can vouch that while many features are common, others vary from culture to culture. Universal Features of Usual Bosses Personal Features All bosse...

Persistent Rise of Bad Bosses – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #953 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #953 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: Pavel Danilyuk Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko Credit: Yan Krukau This blogpost is based on a talk of Lucia Rahilly of McKinsey with Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, author of ‘Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?: (And How to Fix it) (HBR Press 2019). It is common observation that too many incompetent men rise to leadership positions, which is serious, and in many cases, devastating issue. True, that men also suffer the consequences of bad leadership, but the damage to people and organizations may be much bigger.  Tomas says their research was focused on abilities, competencies, interests, and personalities, but they also collected data on age, gende...

Emotional Profiles of Bosses – Sum Up – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #909 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #909 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: Karolina Grabowski Credit: Maksim Goncharenok Credit: Nicola Barts Credit: Ono Kosuki Dear Readers! Thank you very much for taking keen interest in the ‘Emotional Profiles of Bosses’ series of blogs. It is now time to conclude this discussion. I shall also raise few questions for discussion. Why Did I Call it Emotional Profiles? We, as human beings, learn our behaviors mainly through emotional experiences. Whatever we live through during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood shapes our emotional profile. Generally, we do what we see. Teams working with p...

Emotional Profiles of Bosses – The ‘Leading’ Type – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #908 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #908 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: fauxels Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Credit: RDNE Stock Project Today, we shall talk about the bosses who are the ‘Leading’ type: means they assume the leadership role as it should be done. The debate about managers and leaders notwithstanding, these bosses manage and lead the team. Leading bosses, often characterized by their positive orientation, strong leadership qualities, and principled work ethic, contribute to creating a positive and effective work environment. Here are the key attributes, and behaviors displayed by this group of bosses. Pos...

Emotional Profiles of Bosses – The ‘Managing’ Type – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #907 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #907 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: Lukas Credit: Sora Shimazaki Credit: Yan Krukau Today, we shall talk about the bosses who are always ‘managing’; means they do it themselves and ask others the same. I have been hearing in so many cases from so many people the same phrase, “please manage somehow”. It is an unhappy situation when a senior person asks his subordinates to just do it somehow. The implied sense is to do it by hook or crook. It means that the manager either does not have capability to give worthwhile input to his junior, or he is not doing it. In both cases, the m...

Emotional Profiles of Bosses – Power-Seeker Type – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #906 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #906 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: cottonbro studios Credit: Edmond Dantès Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko Today, let us talk about the bosses who are always seeking power; power over their teams and even beyond, power over resources, and power over environment. It is a difficult type because stopping them earns their wrath and changing them is almost impossible. Nothing is more powerfully addictive than ‘power’. We see that big businessmen, when they have amassed enough wealth, feel that money alone gives power to a limited extent; they are helpless in front of an SHO, or an Excis...

Emotional Profiles of Bosses – Overly Self-Protecting Type – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #904 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #904 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: Pavel Danilyuk Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Credit: RDNE Stock Project Let us talk about the bosses who are almost always considering their personal safety first. It is not that they are in some kind of danger; they are not, but they still exhibit overt need for their own safety. This behavior is displayed in various forms. Self-protector bosses are driven by a strong need for self-preservation; therefore, they often exhibit characteristics that prioritize personal safety and distance themselves emotionally from their followers. This leade...

Emotional Profiles of Bosses – Emotional Immaturity – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #903 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #903 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: Pavel Danilyuk Credit: Andrea Piacquadio Credit: Sora Shimazaki Let us talk about bosses.  For all subordinates, anywhere in the world, bosses are the most favorite topic. Bosses are discussed in great detail, from their appearance to their habits to styles to peculiar behaviors etc. ‘Bosses bashing’ is also a favorite pastime during group meetings.  I can talk authentically about Pharma industry which has been my core work during the last forty-seven years. We talked about bosses on every available occasion, and so is the case in...