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Executive Coaching – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1128 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1128 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: RDNE Stock Project Credit: Timur Weber Preamble In this blog post, we explore executive coaching, its purpose, the expectations from an executive coach, and the deeper questions surrounding whether a coach should provide answers or ask more questions. Executive Coaching: Answers, Questions, or Both? In today’s fast-paced, competitive, and often volatile business world, leadership roles come with relentless demands. Executives are expected to deliver results, drive innovation, manage people, and navigate complex markets, all while maintaining composure and clarity. This is where executive coaching comes in. Executive coaching is talked about in corporate circle...

How to Continuously Reinvent Yourself Throughout Your Career– Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1074 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1074 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: Asia Culture Center Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko Preamble In today's rapidly evolving professional landscape, the ability to reinvent yourself is no longer optional—it's essential. Whether you’re navigating industry disruptions, shifting personal aspirations, or responding to technological advancements, continuous reinvention is the key to staying relevant and fulfilled. When I look at my own rather long career, I find that I was forced to reinvent myself in the middle years of career because of continuous changes in my assignments, each considerably different from the other. Understanding the value of reinvention, I...

Soft Skills and Commercial Success – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #729 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #729 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: Mikhail Nilov Photo Credit: Thirdman I discussed the lack of soft skills and the reasons thereof in the last post. As a sequel to that, I shall now discuss how soft skills can help in commercial success. During the last few decades, most jobs have become knowledge-based jobs, either due to increased complexity, or due to involvement of technology, or both. The need for soft skills has also increased. The term, soft skills, is now used in broader term and included social skills, analytical skills, planning skills, and organizing skills. Social skills furt...

Poverty of Soft Skills – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #728 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #728 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: Anna Shvets Photo Credit: Vlada Karpovich This article takes some information from the article by Maria Guadalupe and Bryan Ng. The link appears below. Our CVs, Interview forms, and Appraisal forms always have a space for soft skills. Our inventory of soft skills is usually limited to communication, interpersonal relations, teamwork, and we toss in integrity (which is not a skill)  to make it more worthwhile. We maintain that soft skills are required by the employees to grow in their career. However, we do not link the presence of soft skills to the success of ...