Pharma Veterans

Asrar’s Note: Dear Pharma Veterans! I have created this space for ‘Pharma Veterans’; all of us, not just me. I am filling this space to begin with to keep it moving. You are most cordially invited to write your ideas/ experiences. Please send these to me at asrar@asrarqureshi.com . Your contributions will be published promptly and without editing. Please join the movement. Multan was a very familiar place for me and I settled instantly. The old saying is that Multan has plenty of dust (gard), heat (garma), dervish/faqeer (gada) and graves/Mazars (goristan). I knew already as I had lived here four years earlier, and I had been coming here almost every week. Multan has lots of history and culture which you can enjoy if you spend time here. I did not have a permanent abode. I stayed with Javed Akhtar (now Rising Stars fame) for a short while. I also shared a house with a very fine person for some time. It is my privilege to introduce Riaz Najmi here. RN was working in MSD (Merc...

Asrar’s Note: Dear Pharma Veterans! I have created this space for ‘Pharma Veterans’; all of us, not just me. I am filling this space to begin with to keep it moving. You are most cordially invited to write your ideas/ experiences. Please send these to me at asrar@asrarqureshi.com . Your contributions will be published promptly and without editing. Please join the Community and the movement. Our Multan team continued to slide down in terms of team cohesion, team work and team performance. We had not become a ‘manager’ as yet, but we had our views on management. I do not remember how right or wrong our thinking was, but we had some deep thinking anyway. I would like to look back and re-examine why a good, strong team fell apart. We start by seeing what made us into a ‘team’. Common Agenda: We followed the same purpose. We wanted to perform and achieve/exceed sales targets. We also wanted to excel in meetings. We supported one another even if we had to go out of the way. I m...