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Evolution of Management Thinking and Practices – 18th & 19th Centuries – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #915 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #915 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. Charles Babbage Babbage Analytical Machine Charles Dupin Robert Owens Andrew Ure Several luminaries can be credited with shaping the early management thought during 18th and 19th centuries. We shall see a few in the next paragraphs. Robert Owens (1771 – 1858) Robert Owens was a successful Scottish entrepreneur and a utopian socialist who sowed the first seeds of concern for the workers. He was repulsed by the working conditions and poor treatment of the workers in the factories across Scotland. Owen became a reformer. He redu...

Role of Chief Operating Officer – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #847 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #847 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: olia danilevich Credit: cottonbro studio Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko I cannot say with authenticity about other industries; however, pharma industry is not very particular about designations. It holds true for all levels and all companies. For example, several companies give the title of ‘manager’ to the frontline salesperson, or medical representative. We see ‘territory manager’, ‘field manager’, etc. in companies. For the same job, he/she is called officer, and in still others ‘medical representative’. The same issue goes upwards to all levels. I have interviewed ...

Pakistan Pharma Industry SWOT – Part 24 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #615 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #615 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by 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. Opening Note February 2022 marked my completing 47 years of working in Pharma Industry. Allah be praised. I am still working. The first half of my working career was spent in Multinational companies, and the latter half in the Local Pharma, making me well-versed with both innovators and generics markets. I also had the opportunity to work in business as well as operations.  My journey of near half century is also the journey of Pharma Industry in Pakistan. Great changes have occurred in this time and a lot could be written about it. In my blogs, which were started...