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Major Shifts in Management Thinking Over Twenty Years – Shift #7 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1190 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1190 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: Arina Krasnikova Credit: August de Richelieu Credit: Juairia Islam Shefa Preamble This series shall explore major shifts in management thinking and paradigm shifts over the last twenty years. Shift #7 – The New Competitive Advantage: Why Collaboration and Ecosystems Are Replacing Traditional Competition Competition has been at the heart of management philosophy. Companies fought rival firms for market share. They protected their intellectual property fiercely. They built moats, defended turf, and played zero-sum games. Winning meant beating the other players on the field. But the last twenty years have changed that...

Major Shifts in Management Thinking Over Twenty Years – Shift 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1184 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1184 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: Polina Zimmerman Preamble This series shall explore major shifts in management thinking and paradigm shifts over the last twenty years. From Hierarchies and Control to Networks, Systems, and Ecosystems For over a century, organizations were built like machines, precise, hierarchical, and predictable. Managers sat at the top, issuing commands down a well-ordered pyramid. Employees were expected to execute those commands efficiently, with minimal deviation. It was a world of control, clarity, and compliance, one that worked well in an era of stability and scale. But the last twenty years have completely rewritten the ...