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Thich Nhat Hanh on Healing Ties Through Deep Listening – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1158 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1158 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: ab-pixels.ng Credit: vera arsic Thich Nhat Hanh Preamble Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 – 2022) was a Vietnamese, great Buddhist teacher and peace activist. He has written several books and essays.  Relationships are complex, and hurt is inevitable. Misunderstandings, conflicts, or bad actions can rip at the fabric of connection, turning once-safe places into sources of pain. Yet, there is a way forward, one illuminated by one of the great spiritual teachers of our time, Thich Nhat Hanh. In the essay “The Art of Deep Listening and the Three Buddhist Steps to Repairing a Relationship,” we find a gentle, powerful road...

The Servant Leadership – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #971 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 971 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: Matheus Bertelli Credit: Werner Pfennig This post is based on multiple searches; some of the links are given under references. The Concept of Servant Leadership The term ‘servant leadership’ was coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in an essay titled ‘The Servant as Leader’ that was first published in 1970. Greenleaf said, “The servant-leader is servant first … it begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions…The leader-first and the ser...

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 #277. 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 . Listening is a favorite topic and is covered in all courses on Communication, of which it is an integral part anyway. It is emphasized with great force and vigor that one must listen. At a more advanced level, it is also said that we must not listen for words only; we must listen for emotions and feelings also. Studies suggest that in the communication process, relative contribution of Words, Tone, and Expression goes like this. ·       Words – (verbal part)                ...