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Navigation Plan for CEOs and Top Executives 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1059 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1059 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: Kampus Production Credit: Mikhail Nilov Preamble This is in continuation with the previous post. The key information and excerpts are taken from McKinsey article. Link at the end. #3 – Leadership Mobilization Checklist • Team Composition – Is my senior team the right size, comprising people with complementary skills and characterized by an ‘enterprise first’ mind? Tough question. A group of high performers becomes truly effective only when its members’ skills complement one another. If it is so, then the overall performance will be bigger than the sum of individual performances. When Asher-Topilsky became the CEO of IDB bank, it was un...

Navigation Plan for CEOs and Top Executives – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1058 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1058 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: Rene Terp Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko Preamble I am very impressed with the quality and range of work done by McKinsey &Co. The reports and articles generated by them are par excellence. They have published a great article in November last year in which they drilled down the learning taken from in-depth interviews of many of the most successful CEOs of current times and converted it into a checklist of 18 questions, of which every CEO should have the answers. These questions are spread across 6 dimensions.  I would like to take this checklist and apply it to senior executives rather than CEO alone. In our pharma organizations, emplo...