Us and Ourselves – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #584 by Asrar Qureshi
Us and Ourselves – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #584 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues! This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #584. Pharma Veterans welcome 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. Long time back, I met a person who had published a collection of his poetry; regular, romantic kind. The gentleman himself was on the other side of middle-age, sported a long beard and was a religious person. I was young and brash (and stupid) and asked him why he was writing poetry because he did not even look like a poet. He calmly replied that first the person had to be good; only then he would be able to do good things, be it poetry or else. I had no reply to that. Today, we use the term ‘holistic’ in many situations. We say that the hiring process should be holistic, we say professional ...