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Emotional Profiles of Bosses – The ‘Managing’ Type – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #907 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #907 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: Lukas Credit: Sora Shimazaki Credit: Yan Krukau Today, we shall talk about the bosses who are always ‘managing’; means they do it themselves and ask others the same. I have been hearing in so many cases from so many people the same phrase, “please manage somehow”. It is an unhappy situation when a senior person asks his subordinates to just do it somehow. The implied sense is to do it by hook or crook. It means that the manager either does not have capability to give worthwhile input to his junior, or he is not doing it. In both cases, the m...

Focusing Short Term and Expecting Long Term – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #842 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #842 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: Diva Palavalaguna Photo Credit: RDNE Stock Project Photo Credit: Thirdman James Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He is a regular contributor to HBS Working Knowledge, and his articles are always deeply thought provoking. Primary thought for this post comes from his August 2023 article titled ‘As Leaders, Why Do We Continue to Reward A, While Hoping for B?’. (Link at the end). His article focuses on corporates, which I shall take up in this post with particular reference to the working in Pharma Industry. ...