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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...

Tired Organizations – Reasons & Cures – Part 6 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #765 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #765 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 Piacquadio Photo Credit: Craig Adderley Photo Credit: Edmond Dantès Continued from Previous…… We explore reasons why organizations fail to perform up to mark and become tired.  Keeping Tight Control When an entrepreneur starts an enterprise, particularly a small one, he has to do all major functions himself and also have to keep a tight control so that nothing may go wrong. Also,  that he can do necessary corrections and adjustments even on day-to-day basis. As the business grows, core functions evolve, and some delegatio...

Tired Organizations – Reasons & Cures – Part 5 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #764 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #764 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: Alexander Dummer Photo Credit: Christina Morillo Photo Credit: Christina Morillo Photo Credit: Elijah O'Donnell Continued from Previous…… We continue our discussion on tired organizations, which are those who have been left behind in the process of progress. Technology Adaptation Pharma Industry in Pakistan has also had its share of technology adaptation during the last 15-20 years. Technology upgrade has occurred in several areas, such as manufacturing, packaging, and storage. However, the biggest change has come in the Quality Control a...

Tired Organizations – Reasons & Cures – Part 4 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #763 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: Yan Krukau Photo Credit: Andrea Piacquadio Photo Credit: Clay Elliot Continued from Previous…… We continue our discussion on tired organizations, which are those who have been left behind in the process of progress. Human Resource Anomalies Human resource is still not recognized as even a resource; it is considered more as a labor which is easily replaceable. Right-person-for-the-right-job is also not universally applied in organizations; the once closest to the chief gets the highest position. Sometimes I wonder about where we are on the...

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 ...

Tired Organizations – Reasons & Cures – Part 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #761 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #761 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. Blackberry Bold Photo Credit: Karolina Grabowska Nokia 3310 Photo Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko Continued from Previous…… We continue our discussion on tired organizations, which are those who have been left behind in time for various reasons, who now move slowly and painfully, and who appear to have lost hope also. The pace of change is fast and furious; individuals or organizations who do not move at the same pace keep falling behind. We take up the next reason which is so critical that it became the undoing of many huge businesses. Failure to See the ...

Tired Organizations – Reasons & Cures – Part 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #760 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #760 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: cottonbro studio Photo Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Justice M. Rustam Kayani (1902 – 1962) was among the most well-known and well-respected jurists who served as Chief Justice of West Pakistan from 1958 to 1962. At that time West Pakistan and East Pakistan were two units of Pakistan; the provinces were not recognized as separate administrative structures. Justice Kayani is known for his wit, his uprightness, his principles, and his opposition to Ayub Khan’s dictatorship. His following verses are known to so many even if they did not know who sa...