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Understanding Our Power of Influence – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #889 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #889 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. Vanessa Bohns Credit: Mikhail Nilov Do we understand how much power we have of influencing others? Generally, we have some vague idea with many ifs and buts. Mostly, we tend to think that influencing others is a very difficult task and only people with special skills can do it, not the ordinary people. Although we presently see an army of ‘influencers’ in every category from food to fashion to technology, we still believe we are not the influencing material. For this reason, we do not even try to exert our influence on others. Venessa Bohns is a social psychologi...

Poverty of Soft Skills – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #728 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #728 for Pharma Veterans. 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. Photo Credit: Anna Shvets Photo Credit: Vlada Karpovich This article takes some information from the article by Maria Guadalupe and Bryan Ng. The link appears below. Our CVs, Interview forms, and Appraisal forms always have a space for soft skills. Our inventory of soft skills is usually limited to communication, interpersonal relations, teamwork, and we toss in integrity (which is not a skill)  to make it more worthwhile. We maintain that soft skills are required by the employees to grow in their career. However, we do not link the presence of soft skills to the success of ...

A Test of Patience – Part 2 – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #558 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #558. 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. Continued from Previous…… Psychologists have described patience, types of patience and therapies for cultivating patience. We pick a little from there for understanding but stay away from hardcore psychology. A study by Sarah A. Schnitker, published in The Journal of Positive Psychology reports results of three studies, the first of which measures three types of patience on a new 3-factor Patience Scale. Interpersonal Patience – is the one we need when we deal with people, and which is what we do most commonly. People are our family, our friends, our colleagues, our bosses, our te...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #281. Pharma Veterans shares the wealth of knowledge and wisdom of Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. 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…… Having achieved a degree of Self-Acceptance and Self-Esteem, how to sustain the spirit of Empathy; it is the topic for this blog and is also the last part of the Empathy series. Please understand that Empathy is a ‘Mind Game’. Sympathy is a ‘Heart Game’. Empathy is distinctly different from Sympathy, which is when we feel pity about someone. Sympathy motivates us to help the other person without knowing or understanding. The help may be one-time or limited offer and it may not change the condition of the recipient in the lon...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #266. 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 . Lately, I had another look at the Johari’s Window. I looked long and hard and realized that we actually control two windows and that only these two are crucial to all relationships; be they personal or professional. The classical window looks like this. I know - You know (IK-YK)   Open areas : mostly external & very few internal; appearances, habits, traits one is consciously aware of I don’t know - You know (IDK-YK) Partly open : mostly external & some internal; appearances, habits, traits one him/her...