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Leader for Everyone – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1155 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1155 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: August de Richelieu Credit: JLT Project Credit: RDNE Stock Project Preamble “We don’t get to choose who we lead. We have to lead everybody. We have to get them from where we are to where we’re trying to go as a team.” Robert E. Siegel. Author of ‘The Systems Leader – Mastering the Cross Pressures that Make or Break Today’s Companies’.  Leadership, at its core, is not about comfort, convenience, or selective engagement. It is about responsibility. The quote above encapsulates one of the most profound truths of leadership: you don’t get to pick and choose your followers the way you might select friends, colleagues, or even employees. Once you ...

Leadership Development Series – The Secret to Building Great Leaders: More Than Theory – Practice, Habits, Beliefs – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1142 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1142 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: Esteban Zapata Paèz Credit: Muhammad Abdelghaffar Credit: Wolf Art Preamble This blog post takes insights from Boston Consulting Group’s “The Secret to Building Great Leaders.” It explores how leadership transformation happens not through theory, but through sustained practice, explaining the three pillars of reframing, practicing deliberately, and hardwiring new behaviors. What truly defines exceptional leadership is not workshop wisdom, strategic frameworks, or inspirational speeches alone, it’s how these translate into daily habits, beliefs, and behaviors. Accord...

The Embodiment Gap in Leadership: Why Knowing Isn’t the Same as Doing? – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 1131 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 1131 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: August de Richelieu Credit: ICSA Credit: Yan Krukau Preamble Walk into any corporate training room, and you’ll find leaders scribbling notes on active listening, emotional intelligence, resilience, or adaptability. They nod in agreement, fully understanding the theories being presented. Yet, back at their desks, when the pressure mounts, the same leaders snap at colleagues, micromanage, or fall back into old, usual habits. This disconnect between knowing about leadership and practicing leadership is known as the Embodiment Gap — the difference between intellectually grasping leadership concepts and physically, ...

Business Leaders – Review, Change, Upgrade Like Technology – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1115 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1115 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: Fernando Cortes Credit: Los Muertos Crew Credit: Nataliya Vaitkevich Credit: ROMAN ODINTSOV Preamble In the digital era, where change is the only constant, technology has adopted a natural rhythm: review, change, upgrade. Every day, we witness software updates, new app versions, and breakthrough innovations that redefine how we live and work. Behind each of these developments is a relentless commitment to improvement. The question that arises is: Are business leaders evolving with the same urgency? Many organizations invest millions in digital transformation, but often the leadership mindset remains stuck in legacy model...

Four Timeless Leadership Traits – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1060 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1060 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: Cedric Fauntleroy Kampus Production Credit: Lubomir Satko Credit: Natanael Alves Bezerra This post is inspired by an article by Marcel Schwantes, Executive Coach, Speaker and Author. Link at the end. Preamble Leadership is a subject which has invited opinions, observations, and deep thinking by hundreds of people across various ages. From small town leadership to country leadership, and from first line managers to CEOs, leadership means differently in different role. We focus mainly on corporate management which is our core subject.  Too many traits have been identified, suggested, and recommended for leaders to cover every aspect of leadership. Mo...

Issues with Leadership Development Programs – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1057 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1057 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: Alax Matias Credit: Chu Chup Hinh Credit: Mustapha Damilola This blog post in based on a McKinsey article published ten years ago in January 2014 but is still very relevant. Link at the end. I have added my own point of view based on Pakistan experience.  Preamble Every organization of substance and character spends money on leadership development programs. US companies alone spend almost $14 billion annually on leadership development. Most universities offer degrees and courses in leadership development even in Pakistan. Elitist institutions in Pakistan may charge 1.5 million for a two-week management development program while a top bu...

Leaders Can Be Vulnerable – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1016 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1016 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. Credit: Anna Nekrashevich Credit: fauxels Credit: Henry Mathieu-Saint-Laurent Credit: RDNE Stock Project Leadership often comes with the pressure to always have the answers, appear strong, and project unwavering confidence. Vulnerability in leadership is often seen as a paradox. Leaders are traditionally expected to project strength, confidence, and decisiveness, but embracing vulnerability can be one of the most powerful tools for building trust, engagement, and authentic connections in a team. The truth is that the most impactful leaders aren’t the ones who never show weakness, but the ones who embrace vulnerability as a strength. In a world where we're conditi...

Core Leadership Behaviors Are Not What You Perceive – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #954 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #954 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. Credit: Alena Darmel Credit: Anna Tarazevich Credit: Karolina Grabowska This blogpost is inspired by a McKinsey article authored by Claudio Feser, Fernando Mayol, and Ramesh Srinivasan. link at the end. Leadership is a buzzword which is thrown around a lot, particularly, these days. There is an unending discussion on essential attributes of leadership, what makes a leader, how should the leader think and act, leadership for change, and so on and on. It is a great transition from conventional management which was archaic, patriarchal, autocratic, and centralized. Management was about work and deployment of all types of resources to get work don...

Emotional Profiles of Bosses – The ‘Leading’ Type – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #908 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #908 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: fauxels Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Credit: RDNE Stock Project Today, we shall talk about the bosses who are the ‘Leading’ type: means they assume the leadership role as it should be done. The debate about managers and leaders notwithstanding, these bosses manage and lead the team. Leading bosses, often characterized by their positive orientation, strong leadership qualities, and principled work ethic, contribute to creating a positive and effective work environment. Here are the key attributes, and behaviors displayed by this group of bosses. Pos...