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Cost of Incentives to Work Life Balance – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1258 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1258 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: Ketut Subiyanto Preamble This post is based on insights taken from Harvard Business School Working Knowledge article by Ashley V. Whillans and Rachel Kim Rackza. Link at the end. When Incentives Redefine Priorities: A Pharma Industry Perspective on Bonuses, Performance, and Life The pharmaceutical industry is built on precision, compliance, and performance. From sales targets to regulatory milestones, from product launches to market share growth, everything is measured, tracked, and rewarded. And rightly so. In a high-stakes industry where outcomes impact both business and patient lives, performance matters. But beneath this structured sys...

Four Reasons for Considering a New Job – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1075 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1075 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: Nataliya Vaitkevich Credit: Katrin Bolovtsova Credit: Mikhail Nilov This post is based on a research by Gallup, and compiled by Corey Tatel, Ben Wigert, and Sangeeta Agrawal. Link at the end. Preamble As I often point out, gone are the days when people stuck to the same job for a lifetime, except government employees who wish that the same job should be transferred in their children’s name and continue. Private sector employees are more used to switching jobs, though you still find cases where people even in private sector spend long time/ lifetime in the same organization. The trend is changing, in certain functions more than the others....

Credit: Christina Morillo Credit: Lombe K Credit: Mikhail Nilov Credit: Timur Weber Credit: Vitaly Gariev Credit: Yan Krukau Multiple Generations at Work – Strategies – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1008 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1008 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. We have seen how the generations have been classified and what challenges come up in the workplaces. In this last part, we shall look at strategies to mitigate risks and take advantage of the presence of multiple generations. Deploy Tailored Management Strategies The foremost strategy is to tailor management strategies, not once but on a continuing basis.     For example, different generations have varying preferences for feedback. The strategy should be to design feedback strategies that include both real-time, in...

‘Right to Disconnect’ Law – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #956 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #956 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: Antoni Shkraba Credit: cottonbro studio Credit: Mizuno K On Saturday evening, I forwarded couple of messages to a colleague and added a voice note requesting him to have a bit of research done on the links in the messages. He replied instantly that he would. This Saturday was an off day.  Did I do the right thing by asking to do something outside the office hours? Knowing that the world is considering that after-hours messages, emails, assignments must be discouraged or even forcefully prevented. No, I did not. This movement has been going on for a few years since we started boasting about ‘being connected 24/7’. I remember, Blackberry in its prime, had thi...

Fulfilled Life – What and How? – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #685 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #685 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. Fulfilled life may have as many interpretations as the humans on earth. Philosophers, spiritual leaders, scholars, academics, artists, literati, scientists, and everyone else thought about this subject and have given insights which help to understand this complex subject. The major complexity arises out of the fact that we include our desires, ambitions, likes, and needs to determine what a fulfilled life means for us. The second issue is that the definition changes with changes in the circumstances. For example, a poor person would say that his/her fulfilled life would s...

Retiring at age 60 – Blog Post #422 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #422. Pharma Veterans welcomes 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. We take a break from the 'Story of a Pharma Salesperson’ and move on to other topics. We shall return to it again later. Pakistan, like several other countries, has fixed 60 years of age for retirement of government employees, other than armed forces who have a rank-based mechanism. In some countries, women and men have different retirement ages. For example, Vietnam has 60 years for men and 55 years for women as the retirement age. Government employees are eligible for pension after retirement; private employees may also get EOBI pension. Government policies are also changing as we shall see later. The wor...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #300. Pharma Veterans shares the wealth of knowledge and wisdom of Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site.  If you wish to share your stories, ideas and thoughts, please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . What do I feel while writing the 300 th Blog Post? This is what I wish to share today. It is not about me really. It is about an effort which anyone of us can do. I am not always an early adopter as per the standard definition, but I have done it regularly with technology and digital space somehow. I got email IDs at Brain Net and Wol Net and Cyber Net. I was early on Yahoo mail and Hotmail. When Gmail started, it was by invitation only. I got myself invited and made Gmail ID which I am still using as the main email account. I joined Twitter as it came, Joined Instagram, Fl...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #275. Pharma Veterans shares the wealth of knowledge and wisdom of Veterans for the benefit of Pharma Community. Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site.  If you wish to share your stories, ideas and thoughts, please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Continued from Previous…… In Part 5, we shall continue to look at the possible ways to achieve better work life balance. And conclude the discussion on this topic. Work Life Balance is interpreted differently by people. It is based on personal orientation, ambitions, goal setting and a host of other factors. It is also viewed differently by the people in the same context. For example, work life balance is generally seen differently by spouses. It also varies if both are working or one is working. Parents don’t mind if their children spend long hours at work an...