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Introverts vs Extroverts in the Workplace – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 999 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 999 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: Nina zeynep güler Credit: Chloe Credit: Liliana Drew Credit: Mikhail Nilov Preamble Introverts are people who prefer calm environment, limited social engagement, or as psychology puts it, ‘a person characterized by concern primarily with their own thoughts and feelings’. Extroverts, on the other hand, are those people who express themselves more outwardly. They will talk animatedly about their efforts and achievement, socialize openly, and may be able to network more quickly, other factors notwithstanding. Both above have become stereotypes and are seen as much at workplace and life in general. It may be a fallacy because extrovert and introvert a...

Healthcare Landscape in Pakistan – Sum Up – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #987 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #987 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: Ahmet Kurt Credit: Anna Shvets Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko This is the 12th blog post on the topic of healthcare in this series. I have talked about all major stakeholders, their roles, and their issues. It is time to sum up the entire discussion, hence this post. Rather than summing up all the points discussed so far, I shall talk about the impact of various stakeholders on the healthcare system in Pakistan. I shall focus on the system itself under various heads. Strengths Pakistan can rightly claim to have a highly developed, elaborate healthcare system among low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). There are separate, dedicated institutes for...

Managers and Employees Perceive Differently – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 959 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 959 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: Liza Summer Credit: Koolshooters Credit: Vika Glitter This blog post has been inspired by Gallup® research on managers’ strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots, link to the article at the end. As a first line manager, I attended a management training course arranged by the company in collaboration with an external trainer. Among the many exercises we did, there was one where we, as managers, had to rate ourselves on various management parameters. Whatever we rated ourselves was not discussed individually, but collectively these were discussed. After returning to office, I, on an impulse, gave the same form to my team members and asked them to rat...

Business Strategies for Smaller Pharma Companies – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #893 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #893 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: Anna Tarazevich Credit: Arina Krasnikova This topic is new. Though the desire of smaller companies to do better than the competition and become big quickly, but they often adopt wrong strategies. The time moves forward rapidly and the organizations which do not play along are left behind. Pakistan market is littered with low performing organizations, both old and new, who are struggling to survive.  When an organization is left behind, it is not just the business owners who suffer, all employees, vendors, suppliers, c...

New Products Market Entry – Points to Consider – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #883 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #883 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: Leeloo Thefirst Credit: Mikael Blomkvist Pharmaceutical Industry is a happening place; the number of new products being launched every year is quite significant. For example, about 500 new products were launched during last year, most of these were generic products which added to the list of similar products. The companies are still launching Ceftriaxone, Meropenem, Piperacillin Tazobactam and even some old products. Not all launches are successful. A major company launched a brand of ondansetron with great fanfare but could...

My New Book Titled ‘Rise of Local Pharma Industry in Pakistan – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #706 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #706 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. Published: September 2019 Published: September 2022 My New Book Titled ‘Rise of Local Pharma Industry in Pakistan – Past, Present, SWOT, Way Forward’ has been published. It has been published by Nai Soch Publishers who may be contacted at 042 37361416 or WhatsApp at 0300 8475843. Actually, this is my second book; the first was ‘Aik Aam Aadmi ka Hajj’ which was published in 2019 when I returned from Hajj. As you know I write blogs in this space and my topics are mostly related to Pharma Industry, Pharma Industry Pakistan, the issues that are ...

Employee Engagement – Part 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #687 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #687 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 Piaccquidio Photo Credit: Fauxels FACTORS THAT PROMOTE ENGAGEMENT Creating and maintaining employee engagement is a continuous effort. It is neither off/on nor something that once created shall stay forever. Globoforce reports that 36% businesses see employee engagement as a top challenge. My own experience in several organizations who sincerely wanted to create employee engagement tells that it is a constant effort at multiple levels. We shall discuss the situation in Pakistan separately. Research and surveys have identified several factors that promot...

Pakistan Pharma Industry SWOT – Part 30 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #621 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #621 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. Opening Note February 2022 marked my completing 47 years of working in Pharma Industry. Allah be praised. I am still working. The first half of my working career was spent in Multinational companies, and the latter half in the Local Pharma, making me well-versed with both innovators and generics markets. I also had the opportunity to work in business as well as operations.  My journey of near half century is also the journey of Pharma Industry in Pakistan. Great changes have occurred in this time and a lot could be written about it. In my blogs, which were started...

Pakistan Pharma Industry SWOT – Part 29 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #620 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #620 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. Opening Note February 2022 marked my completing 47 years of working in Pharma Industry. Allah be praised. I am still working. The first half of my working career was spent in Multinational companies, and the latter half in the Local Pharma, making me well-versed with both innovators and generics markets. I also had the opportunity to work in business as well as operations.  My journey of near half century is also the journey of Pharma Industry in Pakistan. Great changes have occurred in this time and a lot could be written about it. In my blogs, which were started...

Pakistan Pharma Industry SWOT – Part 28 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #619 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #619 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. Opening Note February 2022 marked my completing 47 years of working in Pharma Industry. Allah be praised. I am still working. The first half of my working career was spent in Multinational companies, and the latter half in the Local Pharma, making me well-versed with both innovators and generics markets. I also had the opportunity to work in business as well as operations.  My journey of near half century is also the journey of Pharma Industry in Pakistan. Great changes have occurred in this time and a lot could be written about it. In my blogs, which were started...