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Leadership Development Series – The Secret to Building Great Leaders: More Than Theory – Practice, Habits, Beliefs – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1142 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1142 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: Esteban Zapata Paèz Credit: Muhammad Abdelghaffar Credit: Wolf Art Preamble This blog post takes insights from Boston Consulting Group’s “The Secret to Building Great Leaders.” It explores how leadership transformation happens not through theory, but through sustained practice, explaining the three pillars of reframing, practicing deliberately, and hardwiring new behaviors. What truly defines exceptional leadership is not workshop wisdom, strategic frameworks, or inspirational speeches alone, it’s how these translate into daily habits, beliefs, and behaviors. Accord...

Organizational Culture Transformation Process – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #834 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #834 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. Photo Credit: Polina Zimmeerman Photo Credit:  Photo Credit: Yan Krukau This post has been inspired by an article written by Allan Watkinson and Rohit Kar published in Gallup® Workplace on 24 March 2023. (Link appears at the end) With all the talk and rhetoric about organizational culture, what is the process if the culture is to be built deliberately? This is the question we shall address in today’s post. Couple of basics first. The age of organization is a determining factor for the culture transformation; older organizations will take longer and harder...

Tired Organizations – Reasons & Cures – Part 9 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #768 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #768 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. Photo Credit: fauxels Photo Credit: Ivan Samkov Photo Credit: Ivan Samkov Continued from Previous…… After having looked at the appearance, symptoms of the tired organizations, and the reasons why these are so, we now come to the cures. Turning around a tired organization will take serious, concerted, and consistent effort, but it is quite possible and viable. In many ways, it is still better than establishing a new enterprise. The enterprise is already there, revenue stream is there, the enterprise in earning some profit, functions are clarified, staff...

Tired Organizations – Reasons & Cures – Part 8 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #767 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #767 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. Photo Credit: Marcelo Moreira Photo Credit: fauxels Photo Credit: Moose Photos Continued from Previous…… There are several more reasons for the underperformance of tired organizations, some of which are described here. Quality of leadership – The quality of leadership in an organization is a critical factor in its success. Inadequate leadership can result in a lack of direction, poor decision-making, and low employee morale. We are not just talking about the quality of leadership of the chief, we are referring to leadership at all levels; heads of fun...

About Family Businesses – Part 3 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #709 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #709 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. Photo Credit: Forbes.com Photo Credit: Google Images This series of articles partakes from some material published in INSEAD Knowledge. INSEAD is in France and is highly ranked among the most prestigious business schools of the world. We continue with the positive factors which have helped pharmaceutical companies grow. Our focus is on local, generic pharmaceutical corporates. Infrastructure, Policies and Processes The lynchpin of sustained progress is development of appropriate infrastructure, policies, and processes. The infrastructure is formed as the needs evolve. S...

About Family Businesses – Part 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #707 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #707 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. Photo Credit: Andrea Piacquadio Photo Credit: Fox Photo Credit: Karolina Grabowska This series of articles partakes from some material published in INSEAD Knowledge. INSEAD is in France and is highly ranked among the most prestigious business schools of the world. Almost all businesses start as family business, even if they are started by one individual. However, the future trajectory varies greatly. It is reported that around 70% fail even before the second generation takes over. There are many reasons for such huge failure, but it is mostly due to failure to change as...

Scaling Up the Organization as it Grows 11 – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #531 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #531. 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. Continued from Previous…… SUM UP We continue to discuss solutions in the major areas of People, Infrastructure, Processes, and Resources may be listed as major heads in which work needs to be done. SOLUTIONS – INFRASTRUCTURE If people are central to scaling up, infrastructure is the theme that keeps people together. Following features may be considered about infrastructure. Formality – an evolving organization which started small, has a rather informal infrastructure. The jobs are loosely defined, the hierarchy is unclear, and few people can do many things because th...

Scaling Up the Organization as it Grows 8 – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #528 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #528. 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. Continued from Previous…… Processes and Procedures Development We now take up the topic of Processes and Procedures Development. This is the last but one topic before we sum up the whole discussion, but it is not the last in priority. Actually, everything in the realm of development is happening simultaneously. More on this later. Processes – prevail even at the tiniest size. An organization is a living organism, and every organism has all needed sensory and motor functions: Hiring, staffing, accounting, administration, buying, producing, trading, marketing, selling,...