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Managing Polarized Conversations in Workplace – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #997 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #997 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: Artem Podrez Credit: fauxels Credit: Jopwell Polarization is now hallmark of our society. We have become divided across so many lines; it is difficult to count. Every person is aligned with multiple ideologies which keep coming into conflict with many others, making the situation very complex. Society reflects directly in workplace culture and workplaces have also become polarized. In fact, these are more polarized because of additional angles of alignment with seniors and silos formation. Polarization is palpable in meetings where many people take positions, not on merit, but due to alignments and relationships. This affects the meetings’ e...

Ensuring Effectiveness of a Meeting – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #972 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 972 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: Christina Morillo Credit: cottonbro studio Credit: fauxels Tom Peters, the famed author of ‘In Search of Excellence’ and many other books and a renowned management consultant says, “The only thing on earth that never lies to you is your calendar. That’s why I am fanatic on the topic of time management. But when you use that term, people think, here is an adult with a brain, and he is teaching time management, find something more important please. But something more important does not exist”. Endless, diffuse meetings, according to Peters take up far too much of executives’ precious working time.  In my own situation, I had asked my personal assista...

Interactive Work VS Individual Work In Offices – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #896 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #896 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: Anna Tarazevich Credit: Christina Morillo Credit: Mizuno K In any office, public or private, both types of activities are happening constantly.  The most common form of collective work is ‘meetings’, while individual work is done by the individuals on their own desk without the participation of others. There is an ongoing debate that there are too many meetings and that time for other work is greatly squeezed. A recent article in INSEAD (Link below) states that, “In January, Shopify deleted 12,000 recurring meetings from its staff’s calenda...

Managing Time in 2024 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #895 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #895 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: Stas Knop Credit: Ketut Subiyanto Credit: Mizuno K Year 2023 was extremely turbulent and threatening due to wars, climate disasters, large-scale immigration, refugee crises in many places, almost collapse of international banking system, extreme power struggle in many regions, near death of cryptocurrency, and monstrous rise of Artificial Intelligence. The turbulence is far from over, and new challenges shall come our way in 2024.  The biggest challenge, however, shall be time, time management, specifically.  When we say, ‘time management’, it does not mean th...

What’s in a Meeting? – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #871 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #871 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: Alena Darmel Credit: Christina Morillo Credit: Christina Morillo Corporate meetings are a ubiquitous presence in every corporate that prides itself on being a modern corporate. Innumerable hours are spent on meetings in such places. The senior management is usually seen hustling from one meeting to the other, probably feeling very important also. They are unable to do other/ real work due to rush of meetings and either keep sitting late to catch up or the pending list keeps piling up. In both cases, either the employee suffers, or the work suffers.  I have been a senior e...