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Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #336 . 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…… Managers come in all forms, shapes and sizes; pun intended, and me included. When a worker becomes a manager first time, s/he would impulsively copy various acts of the managers with whom s/he has worked. The initial style of a manager is invariably a combination of bits and pieces of management style and practices picked up from their own managers. Gradually, the new managers come in their own and shape their own style and practice. The process is refined further through training, coaching, mentoring and practicing and keeps on evolving. Most managers struggle with management; some more and for longer t...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #328 . 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 . The title can be interpreted two ways. One, that we are down with lockdown; two, as a protest slogan against lockdown. Both interpretations are reflective of our current situation, but first with the first day of ‘smart/soft lockdown’ which was Monday 11 th May. I have heard that as soon as the branded garments stores and markets opened on Monday morning, the customers queued up in large numbers for Eid Shopping apparently. The parking spaces filled up and the nearby roads got choked and small and large shops were full of customers, men, women and children. All newspapers carried the story and pictures next day along with...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #293. Pharma Veterans shares the wealth of knowledge and wisdom of Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site.  If you wish to share your stories, ideas and thoughts, please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Continued from Previous…… Care – Care is misunderstood, misinterpreted and misused word in emotional relations. The opposite of ‘Care’ is considered ‘I Don’t Care’. This is not entirely correct. To understand this, we first need to define what care actually means. Care is not an act, or a series of random acts; it is a way of life. Care arises from the strength of relationship and then encompasses whole life. Care is the vital sign of a relationship. The absence of care means the relationship is dead. The expression ‘you don’t care about me anymore’ is not a c...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #291. Pharma Veterans shares the wealth of knowledge and wisdom of Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site.  If you wish to share your stories, ideas and thoughts, please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Today, I wish to use this space for a personal note. February 17, 2020 marks the First Death Anniversary of my wife, Rukhsana Bajwa. Exactly a year has gone by since this loss. This post is not a customary note on loss and mourning. It is actually a celebration of a life beautifully spent. I am sharing it to inspire others. It is a long story and I shall complete it in three installments. I shall start by saying a few things by way of introduction. Rukhsana was a PhD in Botany from Sheffield University UK and was teaching at Punjab University. She becam...