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Fear of Letting Go and What to Do – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1025 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1025 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 our contributions here. Preamble In one of the organizations, I had a colleague who had been working on the documentation of export shipments, and he was good at it. During that time, he also somehow got the opportunity to do business communication with couple of customers abroad and did it well. My assessment was that he had good talent for business, and he should shift to that area of work. It would be good for his future growth because documentation was almost a dead-end job. We talked in detail, and he agreed, but he said he would do both for some time. Understanding his fear of letting go, I agreed. Meanwhile, we hired someone for documentation. However, he kept sticking to the ...

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...

Staying Inspired II – Blog Post #435 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #435. 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…… The beginning is important as it sets the scene and pace. As the saying goes, ‘Well Begun is Half Done’, a positive and inspiring beginning sets a highly encouraging tone. On the job, the responsibility for inspiring lies with the line managers. Lies means ‘rests’, not ‘lies’ (pun intended).  There are several things that the line managers may consider for inspiring the team members. Following proposals may be considered. Intellectual Stimulation True that most work is repetitive and routine, and that it leads to boredom, intellectual decline and laziness. The managers will d...