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Navigating Uncertainty – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 1151 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 1151 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: energepic Credit: Fox Credit: Andrea Piacquadio Preamble This blog post takes insights from a recent McKinsey article. Link at the end. In today’s rapidly shifting world, disruption is no longer a rare event; it is the norm. A recent McKinsey study revealed that 84% of business leaders feel underprepared for future disruptions, with geopolitical shifts standing out as a key concern. Geopolitical changes affect all organizations in all countries, not just global companies in developed countries. For example, a Pakistani company doing business only in Pakistan is not immune to global changes as it affects supply chains, exchange rates, local currency value, pr...

Islamabad Under Siege – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1012 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1012 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. News Image News Image News Image News Image Disclaimer: This is not a political post. I do not subscribe to any political party. It is a common person’s problem who is living and working here. Political ideologies died long ago. What is left are pure commercial interests, which do not interest any person who feels she/he has a stake in this country. Friday 4th October 2024 I was doing usual work in the morning, posting blog, sending a few messages for the day, sipping tea and thinking about the day ahead. At 7.00am, the phone service went dead. I don’t have a fixed internet line, the one I have is also data-based device, so the internet also went dead. I knew a political...

Disruption – Today’s Buzzword – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #512 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #512. 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. Disruption is today’s buzzword which is heard every day and at every place. Disruptive businesses, disruptive technologies, even disruptive thinking is talked about these days. Let us look at this term and what does it imply. As the name indicates, Disruption occurs when a usual smooth process is interrupted. It is not just about interruption; it is about changing the course from an age old, tested process to a totally new and different course. Disruption is not about destruction either; it is an improvement over what was being done before. Let us look at some examples to underst...