Sirajuddin Aziz

Sirajuddin Aziz

  • Protocol is ephemeral

    Protocol is ephemeral

    There is perhaps no person who dislikes the attention of others. To glow in the spotlight is an innate desire for most. People will perform many...

  • The power of planning

    The power of planning

    Planning often receives less attention from leadership than other managerial functions as leaders get bogged down in the daily routine and grind....

  • Dependency of ‘independent’ directors

    Dependency of ‘independent’ directors

    The very concept of independence of any sort or type is an illusion. There exists no such idealism in reality. Every man and institution is...

  • How a CEO leads

    How a CEO leads

    The corporatization of business in the last century has created the need for getting properly qualified and experienced professionals to run the...

  • Harassment at the workplace

    Harassment at the workplace

    The mere mention of the word ‘harassment’ evokes, regardless of cultural or geographic setting, associations with gender. Globally, harassment...

  • No demagogues in the boardroom

    No demagogues in the boardroom

    What is demagoguery? In Ancient Greece, demagogue literally meant a leader of the people. Over the centuries, the meaning changed and has come to...

  • How leaders can inspire the future

    How leaders can inspire the future

    The arrival at any milestone, on the path of any pursuit, is not the end of a journey. Every milestone is a stepping stone for the opening of new...

  • Too close for comfort?

    Too close for comfort?

    No management guru, practitioner or even an observer will dispute the dire need to cultivate and create a general feeling of ‘esprit-de-corps’...

  • Relevance in leadership

    Relevance in leadership

    Perhaps for any relationship to be enduring it has to be built upon the edifice of relevance. In fact, in almost every single human interaction, the...

  • Attention deficit in the digital age

    If readers believe that the ailment of lacking focus and attention is an affliction limited to the politicians; then let this piece be a surprise....

  • A short guide to success

    A short guide to success

    Regardless of vocation, industry or segment of the economy or society, the principal requirement to make oneself prominent and outstanding is simply...

  • Corruption dignified

    Corruption dignified

    Human mind is both; a shrine of nobility and a workshop of the devil. Both capacities and capabilities remain at loggerheads, perennially. This...

  • Indifferent managers

    Indifferent managers

    Many people do not care about others. They are not interested in knowing about the perspective of others. They cannot see beyond their narrow and...

  • Saints and devils

    Saints and devils

    Perhaps there is no organisation or a group or set of people where the saint and devil do not reside as both, close and distant neighbours. Both...

  • Business gifts

    Business gifts

    What comes freely, costs very heavily. In “The Passionate State of Mind”, Eric Hoffer, comments, “There is a sublime thieving in all giving....

  • Persistent gridlock

    Persistent gridlock

    Since my childhood years, I have been hearing/listening, reading and watching on TV channels, the ‘challenges’ that our beloved nation is...

  • Not all are bad, wicked and crooked

    Not all are bad, wicked and crooked

    Most of us rush in making judgment calls about others. We do this without taking the pains of verifying the basis of such formation of thought....

  • Art of conversation

    Art of conversation

    Because, I choose mostly, not to speak at all or at best, speak only infrequently, friends look at me as a “great conversationalist”!! My...

  • The arrogance epidemic

    The arrogance epidemic

    Is arrogance an attitude? A signature style. A class act. A self decorated attribute. An acquired privilege. A feeling of no one else is better than...

  • Between alternatives

    Between alternatives

    Life is not a game of dice or chance. Neither is career. Both have to be chiseled and pursued with pre- determination of what one wants to do, how...