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Sirajuddin Aziz
Sirajuddin Aziz

  • 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,...

  • September 11, 2023

    The mind trap

    Perhaps all of us at some point of our lives become prisoners of our thoughts. The mind conjures the thought, which we not only tend to believe in,...

  • September 04, 2023

    Education on the guillotine

    Bertrand Russell had said that the best time to educate a child is at least 100 years before the child is born. This remark is extremely easy to...

  • August 28, 2023

    Residence in ivory towers

    Is there an address to Ivory towers? Does it exist? Indeed it exists, but is uninhabitable. Ivory tower is located in Antarctica; it is a small peak...

  • August 21, 2023

    Knowledge, reflection, and self-discovery

    Sink thyself! There ask what ails thee, at that shrine..

  • August 14, 2023

    The art of silence

    The yearning to speak is but being human. It is extremely difficult to pretend, even for the shortest time, being a Robinson Crusoe on a deserted...

  • August 07, 2023

    Kindness and commerce

    Business and kindness, can they ever be friends? Can they ever collaborate? Commercial objectives, can these be ever achieved through the medium of...

  • July 31, 2023

    The power of questions

    The word curiosity by usage is made to represent a negative connotation; albeit its dictionary meaning is, “a strong desire to know or learn...

  • July 24, 2023

    The Titanic trap

    Since times immemorial the saga of the battle between nepotism and talent has remained in vogue, and the battle lines still continue to be drawn......

  • July 17, 2023

    Beyond nine-to-five

    Most people, at the rate of a minimum of eight hours per day of a five day week, spend a total of forty hours at the workplace, from the 120 hours...

  • July 10, 2023

    Look beyond yourself

    Perhaps it is not just in the business and corporate world, but in every walk of life of all the people, across different cultures, the current era...

  • July 03, 2023

    Time wasters

    This piece is meant to dwell upon how each of us, deliberately or unintentionally, criminally “waste” the most important asset, that is...

  • June 26, 2023

    Corporate monk

    The title of this article to many “professionals” would be rebelliously heretical; for what has a “monk” got to do with the ‘Business...

  • June 19, 2023

    Learning from the leader

    The entire premise of thought of this caption, refers to, is based upon, the existence of a Leader , who is recognised, to have the knowledge,...

  • June 13, 2023

    My forever friend

    Perhaps, the strongest relationship is that of a parent and a child. And as they say, a father is worth more than a million scholars. Read on…

  • June 12, 2023

    Unveiling the truth

    Curriculum Vitae is a document prepared by you about yourself. That’s the foundation upon which is built the credentials of who you are and what...

  • June 05, 2023

    Power of serenity

    In management sciences, a leader is referred to and held in adulation as an individual who is possessed of innumerable and multiple qualities,...

  • May 29, 2023

    The battle within

    Within each human resides the two opposing energies; positive and negative. It entirely depends on how each individual trains oneself in seeking a...

  • May 22, 2023

    A symbiotic relationship

    All organisations have a Front Office and a Back Office. Many financial institutions also have, what is nomenclatured as, ‘Middle Office’. The...