Pharma Veterans

Dear Pharma Veterans! The purpose of ‘Pharma Veterans’ is to share your wealth of knowledge and wisdom with others. And to create a movement to recognize and celebrate the Pharma Industry Professionals. Pharma Veterans Blog is published on WordPress, a top blog site on a dedicated URL https://pharmaveterans.com/ . Pharma Veterans Individual Profiles are also published here. So are Guest Blogs of your stories, ideas and thoughts. Please send these to asrar@asrarqureshi.com . Please join the Community and Share. The head hunter started by saying that he was sorry… and stopped. I asked him what happened. He said that the company has decided to withdraw their offer. He was halting and apologetic. He said it had never happened in his career that the company would withdraw offer. It was commonplace that people accepted offer and later regretted. I was only half listening to him. My first reaction was panic. I saw my career tumbling down in a matter of minute...

Dear Pharma Veterans! The purpose of ‘Pharma Veterans’ is to share your wealth of knowledge and wisdom with others. And to create a movement to recognize and celebrate the Pharma Industry Professionals. Pharma Veterans Blog is published on WordPress, a top blog site on a dedicated URL https://pharmaveterans.com/ . Pharma Veterans Individual Profiles are also published here. So are Guest Blogs of your stories, ideas and thoughts. Please send these to asrar@asrarqureshi.com . Please join the Community and Share. It was last quarter of 1996. I was called to head office for a special meeting. I was informed that the sales team would be restructured. I would be Head of Sales with the title of National Sales Manager. There would be four sales teams, each headed by a Team Sales Manager. We discussed who would be TSMs. I was asked to restructure rest of the team. It was a great news and it also meant I shall have to relocate to Karachi. I came back and s...