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Leader for Everyone – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1155 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1155 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: August de Richelieu Credit: JLT Project Credit: RDNE Stock Project Preamble “We don’t get to choose who we lead. We have to lead everybody. We have to get them from where we are to where we’re trying to go as a team.” Robert E. Siegel. Author of ‘The Systems Leader – Mastering the Cross Pressures that Make or Break Today’s Companies’.  Leadership, at its core, is not about comfort, convenience, or selective engagement. It is about responsibility. The quote above encapsulates one of the most profound truths of leadership: you don’t get to pick and choose your followers the way you might select friends, colleagues, or even employees. Once you ...

A Great Person is a Sentence – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1117 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1117 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. Clare Booth Luce Clare Boothe Luce Clare Boothe Luce Preamble The phrase "A Great Person is a Sentence" originates from the book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink. In the book, Pink references a story about Clare Boothe Luce, who once told President John F. Kennedy that “a great man is a sentence.” Her point was that truly accomplished individuals can often be summed up by a single, clear sentence that captures the essence of their impact. She also wanted to tell him that he was unfocused and therefore was not achieving much. For example: Quaid e Azam: “He led the Muslims in United India and gained a separate homelan...

Aging – Medical, Psychological and Human Perspective – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1076 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1076 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: Alina Kurson Credit: Anna Shvets Credit: Hasan Abwini Credit: Ibrahim Yazgan Credit: Los Muertos Crew Preamble Aging is a universal experience, yet it remains one of the most complex and multifaceted processes in human life. It is a journey that brings wisdom and experience but also presents medical, psychological, and emotional challenges. Understanding aging from different perspectives allows us to navigate it with grace, resilience, and purpose. I am a senior citizen and so are most of my friends. We have all experienced aging in different ways. Some went down quickly, but most stood upright with resilience and grace. Here ...

Spiritual Health, Life, and Work – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1001 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1001 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: Prince Kumar Credit: Firshad Muhammad Credit: Milo Deckert This blogpost partakes liberally from an article published in May 2024 by McKinsey based on its own survey. Link at the end. Preamble Workplace are supposed to be secular. Work is the religion that everyone subscribes to. Occasionally, in countries like Pakistan, people tend to discuss too many things in offices either because they have a lot of time to kill, or they just want to keep chattering. Religion, or rather religious elements keep coming under discussion. The topic of this post is spiritual health, not any religion. Spiritual health may be defined as having meaning in one’s life, a sen...

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...

F.I.R.E. Movement in Our Context – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #856 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #856 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: Helena  Credit: Amine M'siouri Credit: Jason Toevs Credit: Tran Nhu Tuan FIRE stands for Financial Independence, Early Retirement. The movement, if it can be called a movement, started in 1992. It was never a tour de force, but several individuals opted to attain financial security early and then retire from active jobs. What they did later, is the subject of an INSEAD article published recently. The article is titled ‘Fulfilment and the FIRE Movement: The Realities of Life After Early Retirement’ and has been put together by Winnie Jiang, Claire Harbour, and ...

Sales Force Effectiveness – Part 3 – Purpose & Practices – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #780 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #780 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: RODNAE Productions Photo Credit: RODNAE Productions Photo Credit: Diva Plavalaguna Continued from Previous…… SFE Purpose The sole purpose of SFE is to maximize growth. Period. SFE Practices Let me emphasize again, for clarity, that Sales Force Effectiveness is to be measured at the level of each salesperson, if you really wish to have meaningful SFE. It must be built bottom up and should not be generalized to get quick results. It can be challenging due to several factors such as absence of enough data, but the quest must go on....