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Tuesday November 12, 2024
Sirajuddin Aziz
Sirajuddin Aziz

  • August 19, 2024

    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...

  • August 12, 2024

    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....

  • August 05, 2024

    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...

  • July 29, 2024

    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...

  • July 22, 2024

    Harassment at the workplace

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

  • July 15, 2024

    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...

  • July 08, 2024

    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...

  • July 01, 2024

    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’...

  • June 24, 2024

    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...

  • June 17, 2024

    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....

  • June 10, 2024

    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...

  • May 27, 2024

    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...

  • May 20, 2024

    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...

  • May 13, 2024

    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...

  • May 06, 2024

    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....

  • April 29, 2024

    Persistent gridlock

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

  • April 26, 2024

    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....

  • April 22, 2024

    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...

  • April 15, 2024

    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...

  • April 08, 2024

    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...

  • April 01, 2024

    Digital leadership

    Perhaps any thought that finds its initiation about leadership that doesn’t hold “values” in esteem is a non-starter. That’s the view of a...

  • March 25, 2024

    Reputation matters

    In the very beginning, it is important to establish in simplest terms what ‘reputation’ means? Cambridge Dictionary defines the word/term as,...

  • March 18, 2024

    Engagement crisis

    Regardless of which and what type of organisation, if a genuine, honest and fair poll is taken, it would reveal that a fair percentage of their...

  • March 11, 2024

    Aversion of state ownership

    Perhaps most of us associate state ownership with corruption, nepotism and inefficiency. This view stems from our limited experience of...

  • March 04, 2024

    Dire need: Economic vision

    Perhaps most readers immediate reaction to the caption would be, not another one, of, old wine in new bottle; or new wine in old bottle. Yes, it is...

  • February 26, 2024

    Leadership in crisis

    The characteristics and traits of leadership in times of peace and placidity in the marketplace are significantly different from the skills...

  • February 19, 2024

    Tarbiyat 2.0

    On the pages of this esteemed newspaper, last week, I dwelt upon how to focus on personality development. In doing so, I covered the importance of...

  • February 12, 2024

    A call for ‘Tarbiyat’

    Without an iota of doubt, nature, blesses, upon each human kind the same level of natural intelligence . Nature is just, it has neither preference...

  • February 05, 2024

    Corporate condolences

    Perhaps, you decided to read this article, because the caption indicates, it is a piece about the end and demise of corporate failures. No. It is...

  • January 22, 2024

    Courage and compassion

    Courage and compassion are not conflicting or contradictory traits or sentiments. Exclusively both traits are desired to be present in a...

  • January 15, 2024

    Leading with truth

    Albeit, the role and responsibilities of a manager and a leader are quite distinct in the study of management sciences, however for this piece, the...

  • January 08, 2024

    Quest for success

    Regardless of the field or profession, all are in quest of success, as understood by the pursuer.

  • January 01, 2024

    Balance Sheet 2024

    This piece will be carried on the first day of the New Year,2024 ; hence to begin this article, firstly , a very Happy New Year to all readers of...

  • December 25, 2023

    Human capital

    Following several decades of experience starting from the management trainee position to the office of being chief executive officer, it is my...

  • December 18, 2023

    Dream big, act bold

    Never Soar aloft on an enemy’s pinions.. It is no gain to gain the world, while losing the soul. "All ambitions are lawful except those which...

  • December 11, 2023

    Beyond babel

    There is no greater wisdom than silence. While silence can also be a powerful tool of communication, yet to verbally communicate is a need of all...

  • December 04, 2023

    Balance of power

    Perhaps, leaders are not good managers, by and large. Exceptions are far and few. On the flip side, managers too, do not make for good leaders. We...

  • November 27, 2023

    Asset or liability?

    Perhaps, as a nation, time is one resource with which we are amply blessed. We could complain about the lack of many other types of resources,...

  • November 20, 2023

    Interreliance

    No Man can live in isolation. No society can remain detached from other operating societies. No country can afford to be reclusive from the comity...

  • November 14, 2023

    MEN ARE COWARDS, WOMEN ARE BRAVE...

    In the movie, Rex Harrison is shown as a teacher, who is frustratingly attempting to teach proper English, to a cockney speaking flower girl from...

  • November 13, 2023

    Team building

    The first foundation slab to be placed upon the concept of building or ‘team creation’, has to be an inviolable admission of the elected,...

  • November 06, 2023

    The lure of fame

    It is rare to find any person who would willingly deny to himself the temptation to seek centre stage. To remain in the spotlight is a human...

  • October 30, 2023

    Emotional intelligence

    With decades behind in the management of human capital or resources, it is my firm view that management is eighty percent docked in 'emotions' and...

  • October 24, 2023

    MONEY MATTERS

    In our society most women are dependent on men in their lives, especially when it comes to managing their finances. It’s about time women learnt...

  • October 23, 2023

    Succession and transition

    By a mere gleaning of only a few pages from the annals of human history, it can be established and recognised that succession to any position of...

  • October 16, 2023

    Power, perks and privileges

    All three aspects cited in the caption have inherent propensities for being misused or abused. Everyone desires and likes privileges. It is an...

  • October 09, 2023

    Human capital and culture

    We are Homo sapiens. We have evolved. So believe the anthropologist. The study of origin and development of human societies and cultures is...

  • October 02, 2023

    Inseparable partner

    Perhaps, it is inconceivable to mention leadership without a reference to integrity. The two are like Siamese twins; inseparable. Any attempt to...

  • September 25, 2023

    Effective team building

    In the corporate setting, miserably and unfortunately, the leader is also seen, as a timekeeper; he/she wastes massively expensive time, in tracking...

  • September 18, 2023

    The ‘other items’ trap

    Meetings are aptly described as the best alternative for work. The outcomes of most meetings lie buried under the sand dunes of neglect and decay,...