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Our Relationship with Trees – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #555 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #555. 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.       Ten years ago, I was in a training program at Dubai. It was orientation session for Global Management Consultants which I had aspired to join. Founder and Chief Executive Saira Akbar was the lead trainer. We were a diverse group of men and women, and the oldest among us was a gentleman from Malaysia. It was a highly educated group where I was probably the least educated. We learned from Saira and from one another. The Malaysian told us an interesting story from his life. He had been educated in the US and had the great opportunity to get tutored by Michael Port...

Challenging Others – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #537 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #537. 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. There are numerous occasions when we find that we must challenge others. These may be personal occasions, or office situations. Challenging may be done to peers, juniors and sometimes seniors as well.  Challenging means that we take a position which is different from the other persons. It may be a technical point, a factual error, or an ideological thing. Depending upon the intensity of difference, the counter argument may get heated up.  Emotions are a natural part of response to other people, and they are the reason for heating the argument. Emotions are also the reason for beco...