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CEOs at Work – Part 4 – Time Management – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #541 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #541. 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. Nitin Nohria Michael E. Porter Continued from Previous…… Nitin Nohria, a dean at Harvard Business School, and Michael E. Porter, a professor at Harvard Business School, are well-known to management students and practitioners. Several years ago, both launched a study to understand what CEOs actually did on and off job.  The study design was to track the entire activities of a CEO 24/7 at 15 minutes intervals for 13 weeks. It was a tall order, but they were able to enlist a number of willing CEOs and their executive assistants. Porter and Nohria collected 60,000 hour...

Decision Making in Present Times – Blog Post #375 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #375. 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 . Present times are uncertain times. COVID is still a mystery in the sense that the spread, treatment and prevention has not been fully comprehended. People are becoming jittery after long lockdown and economic meltdown. In several major cities of the world, people have taken to streets demanding end to lockdown. They carry placards saying, ‘Stop Corona Hoax’. It means the governments have lost confidence of people on this count. Governments are also tired of doling out relief packages and are mired in financial difficulties. On the business side, pricing and supply chain is no...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #344 . 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 .   In this Trilogy, I began by taking from powerhouses of new ideas, namely,   INSEAD,  McKinsey’s, and  Harvard Business School . In this blogpost, I am taking from an article published in HBR on 18 June 18, 2020, with the title and authors given below. I chose this article because wearing mask is the current hot topic, is relevant everywhere, is close to everyone and is extremely important. Our policy makers and opinion leaders are usually focusing on so-called important areas. This being the most basic and workable protection needs attention at all levels. I have done some editing to keep it more relevant to o...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #340 . 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 . Disclaimer. The discussion and opinions expressed are entirely my own. These are based on my experience, observations and learning over long years. These may not be entirely unique. However, any resemblance is unintended and coincidental. If a material is taken from a particular source, it is properly referred to that source.   Continued from Previous…… We have seen various shades of management styles and then reached Holistic Management. There is enough evidence to show that Holistic Management should be the preferred style. However, in practice, it is not seen to be so. Let us analyze why it is not so. False Beliefs There was an ...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #275. Pharma Veterans shares the wealth of knowledge and wisdom of Veterans for the benefit of Pharma Community. 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…… In Part 5, we shall continue to look at the possible ways to achieve better work life balance. And conclude the discussion on this topic. Work Life Balance is interpreted differently by people. It is based on personal orientation, ambitions, goal setting and a host of other factors. It is also viewed differently by the people in the same context. For example, work life balance is generally seen differently by spouses. It also varies if both are working or one is working. Parents don’t mind if their children spend long hours at work an...