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Balancing Execution and Innovation in a Fast-Changing World – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 1156 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 1156 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: cottonbro studio Credit: Karolina Grabowska Preamble This blog post speaks particularly to senior managers who strategize, execute, and are responsible for results today and tomorrow. In today’s dynamic environment, organizations are caught between two equally critical imperatives: executing the existing strategy with discipline and efficiency and simultaneously doing constant innovation to remain relevant in a world of disruption. Lean too much into execution, and the company risks becoming stagnant, missing the next wave of change. Lean too heavily into innovation, and execution suffers, creating instabilit...

Widening Chasm Between Senior and Middle Management– Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 1133 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 1133 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: cottonbro studio Credit: PNW Production Preamble In modern organizations, middle managers are the glue that holds together strategy, execution, people, and process. Yet increasingly, they are feeling disconnected from the very leaders they report to—senior executives. My last blog post was on this subject. This widening gap—often referred to as the “leadership chasm”—has created frustration, disengagement, and even organizational dysfunction. Middle managers feel overlooked, unsupported, and under pressure, while senior management often perceives them as resistant to change, lacking vision, or slow to execute strategy. Why is this...