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HR Monitor 2026 from McKinsey – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1273 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1273 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: fauxels Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko Credit: Vitaly Gariev Preamble This blog post is based on McKinsey’s HR Monitor 2026. Link at the end. HR at a Turning Point: Five Lessons from McKinsey's HR Monitor 2026 For decades, Human Resources was often viewed as an administrative function, a department responsible for hiring, payroll, compliance, and annual performance reviews. Today, that perception is rapidly becoming obsolete. Economic uncertainty, demographic shifts, changing employee expectations, and the disruptive force of artificial intelligence are fundamentally reshaping the workplace. In this environment, organizations can no longer afford an HR...

Major Shifts in Management Thinking Over Twenty Years – Shift #6 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1189 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1188 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: JESHOOTS Preamble This series shall explore major shifts in management thinking and paradigm shifts over the last twenty years. Shift #5 – The Great Talent Reinvention: From Job Descriptions to Skills, Capabilities & Learning Velocity For most of modern corporate history, organizations were built around job descriptions. These documents defined roles, responsibilities, reporting lines, required qualifications, and KPIs. They were the building blocks of recruitment, performance management, promotion pathways, and organizational design. For decades, this model offered clarity and stability. But over the last twen...

HR Monitor 2025 by McKinsey Part 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1139 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1139 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: Artem Podrez Credit: cottonbro studio Credit: Edmond Dantès Preamble Excerpt from McKinsey report preface. [Quote] To help HR leaders compare their functions with others’ and benchmark their progress accordingly, we’ve repeated and expanded our HR Monitor report. Last year’s report covered Germany’s HR landscape. This year, to create a robust set of meaningful indicators across the HR topics most relevant to European organizations, we gathered data from 1,925 companies and insights from more than 4,000 employees across Europe and, for comparison purposes, the United States. This year’s report highlights developments in both what HR delivers—suc...

Recognition Gap Between Developed and Developing Economies – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1134 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1134 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: Artem Podrez Credit: Edmond Dantés Preamble In the evolving world of work, talent is the engine of innovation, performance, and progress. While developed countries often champion a culture of meritocracy—where skills, ideas, and contributions are openly rewarded—developing countries frequently fall short in offering the same level of respect, recognition, and dignity to their workforce, especially their mid-tier talent. The consequences are visible: brain drain, employee disengagement, reduced productivity, and an underutilized human capital base. While a commonly cited reason is the lack of employment opportunities—whic...

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...

About Family Businesses – Part 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #708 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #708 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: Ketut Subiyanto Photo Credit: Paul Efe Photo Credit: RF._.studio This series of articles partakes from some material published in INSEAD Knowledge. INSEAD is in France and is highly ranked among the most prestigious business schools of the world. We continue with the positive factors which have helped pharmaceutical companies grow. Our focus is on local, generic corporates. Courage to Change Most organizations start small and then develop if they develop. Initially, there are few people in every function, and they work closely with the entrepreneurs. They ...

Global Talent Competitive Index – Last Part – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #656 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #656 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. Introduction The eighth edition of Global Talent Competitiveness Index – GTCI – 2021 has been published. This year it has been co-produced by INSEAD, France, and Portulans Institute, a think-tank based in Washington, DC, and Geneva. GTCI measures talent along set parameters in various countries of the world, which more or less remain the same. In the 2021 report, 134 countries are included. The complete report has 328 pages and those interested may follow the link at the end to see the full report.  Discussion and Sum Up The eighth edition of GTCI report came ...

Global Talent Competitive Index – Part 10 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #655 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #655 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. Introduction The eighth edition of Global Talent Competitiveness Index – GTCI – 2021 has been published. This year it has been co-produced by INSEAD, France, and Portulans Institute, a think-tank based in Washington, DC, and Geneva. GTCI measures talent along set parameters in various countries of the world, which more or less remain the same. In the 2021 report, 134 countries are included. The complete report has 328 pages and those interested may follow the link at the end to see the full report.  Analysis of Findings … Continued from Previous We shall analyze...

Global Talent Competitive Index – Part 9 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #654 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #654 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. Introduction The eighth edition of Global Talent Competitiveness Index – GTCI – 2021 has been published. This year it has been co-produced by INSEAD, France, and Portulans Institute, a think-tank based in Washington, DC, and Geneva. GTCI measures talent along set parameters in various countries of the world, which more or less remain the same. In the 2021 report, 134 countries are included. The complete report has 328 pages and those interested may follow the link at the end to see the full report.  Analysis of Findings … Continued from Previous Fifth Pillar – Vo...

Global Talent Competitive Index – Part 8 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #653 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #653 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. Introduction The eighth edition of Global Talent Competitiveness Index – GTCI – 2021 has been published. This year it has been co-produced by INSEAD, France, and Portulans Institute, a think-tank based in Washington, DC, and Geneva. GTCI measures talent along set parameters in various countries of the world, which more or less remain the same. In the 2021 report, 134 countries are included. The complete report has 328 pages and those interested may follow the link at the end to see the full report.  Analysis of Findings … Continued from Previous We shall analyze ...