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Navigation Plan for CEOs and Top Executives 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1059 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1059 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: Kampus Production Credit: Mikhail Nilov Preamble This is in continuation with the previous post. The key information and excerpts are taken from McKinsey article. Link at the end. #3 – Leadership Mobilization Checklist • Team Composition – Is my senior team the right size, comprising people with complementary skills and characterized by an ‘enterprise first’ mind? Tough question. A group of high performers becomes truly effective only when its members’ skills complement one another. If it is so, then the overall performance will be bigger than the sum of individual performances. When Asher-Topilsky became the CEO of IDB bank, it was un...

Why Most Plans Never Materialize and What to Do? – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 991 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 991 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. Image Created with Microsoft Designer Image Created with Microsoft Designer Image Created with Microsoft Designer Image Created with Microsoft Designer The basic concept of this blogpost is taken from the book review of ‘Sidetracked’’ written by Harvard Professor Francesca Gino. The content is mine. Plans often go awry due to various internal and external factors that can interfere with our intentions and ability to follow through. Understanding these factors and developing strategies to cope with them can increase the likelihood of achieving our goals. This is seen most often in individual, personal plans. Corporate plans also get derailed and det...

Cyberloafing at Workplaces – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 958 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 958 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: Andrea Piacquadio Credit: Jopwell Credit: Pixabay Cyberloafing Cyberloafing refers to the act of employees using their company's internet and digital resources for personal purposes during work hours. This can include activities such as browsing social media, shopping online, watching videos, or engaging in non-work-related communication. While seemingly innocuous, cyberloafing can significantly impact productivity and organizational efficiency. The issue becomes even more serious when the staff engages in watching immoral content.  Although internet technology is installed to increase organizational productivity, this is not the case in practice. Technologi...

Managing Time in 2024 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #895 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #895 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: Stas Knop Credit: Ketut Subiyanto Credit: Mizuno K Year 2023 was extremely turbulent and threatening due to wars, climate disasters, large-scale immigration, refugee crises in many places, almost collapse of international banking system, extreme power struggle in many regions, near death of cryptocurrency, and monstrous rise of Artificial Intelligence. The turbulence is far from over, and new challenges shall come our way in 2024.  The biggest challenge, however, shall be time, time management, specifically.  When we say, ‘time management’, it does not mean th...

What’s in a Meeting? – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #871 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #871 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: Christina Morillo Credit: Christina Morillo Corporate meetings are a ubiquitous presence in every corporate that prides itself on being a modern corporate. Innumerable hours are spent on meetings in such places. The senior management is usually seen hustling from one meeting to the other, probably feeling very important also. They are unable to do other/ real work due to rush of meetings and either keep sitting late to catch up or the pending list keeps piling up. In both cases, either the employee suffers, or the work suffers.  I have been a senior e...

Tired Organizations – Reasons & Cures – Part 7 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #766 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #766 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: Marcus Aurelius Photo Credit: Anastasia Shuraeva Photo Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Continued from Previous…… We explore reasons why organizations fail to perform up to mark and become tired.  Technology Aversion Alan Greenspan, the long time and more famous head of Federal Reserve in the US, recounts in his book ‘The Age of Turbulence’ his early days of work. According to him, they used to have large size registers in which they made data entries manually. The same data was used for analysis. Now US has the most advanced technologies in t...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #762 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: Nataliya Vaitkevich Photo Credit: Sora Shimazaki Continued from Previous…… We continue our discussion on tired organizations, which are those who have been left behind in the process of progress. Time Sensitivity The importance of time changed in so many ways in the world. There was a time when things happened in millions of years as science tells us, then it started happening in millennials, then in centuries, then years, then months, and now we count time in days, hours, and minutes. All international sports competitions use a timer of 1/100 of seconds, and the irony is that we buy time from mobile carriers by minutes ...

CEOs at Work – Part 5 – Time Allocation – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #542 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #542. 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. Continued from Previous…… Nitin Nohria and Michael Porter study [link appears at the end] is a very revealing study, and we need to dig more into it. Let us look at some further findings. Emails CEOs are incessantly copied in emails. Most of these are supposed to be for information only. A small percentage really requires some action. However, the CEOs may feel pressured to respond because ignoring would appear to be rude. The risk in unmeasured response is that it may draw them unnecessarily into certain operational matters which they should not otherwise get entangled...

CEOs at Work – Part 4 – Time Management – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #541 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #541. 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. Nitin Nohria Michael E. Porter Continued from Previous…… Nitin Nohria, a dean at Harvard Business School, and Michael E. Porter, a professor at Harvard Business School, are well-known to management students and practitioners. Several years ago, both launched a study to understand what CEOs actually did on and off job.  The study design was to track the entire activities of a CEO 24/7 at 15 minutes intervals for 13 weeks. It was a tall order, but they were able to enlist a number of willing CEOs and their executive assistants. Porter and Nohria collected 60,000 hour...