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Beat that Ms. Project Manager

Posted on January 8, 2008 by Jawwad

Having trained for the last five years with our aggressive technology project schedules at Alchemy Technologies, Fawzia Salahuddin our resident, in house, PMP, had no problems at all in taming and feeding a fully grown tiger cub in less than 15 seconds. If you want a similar job, please perform a similarly outrageous feat and…

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Oopss

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Jawwad

That by the way was post number 100 on wordpress…

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Business Plus spot on, Wednesday, 09 January 2008

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Jawwad

Three words. Don’t miss it.  Nayyab and I go on for about 15 minutes talking about working for your self….

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So what can you do…

Posted on January 6, 2008 by Jawwad

In the immortal words of Bob Marley, (as delivered by Will Smith, in I am Legend)     Light up the darkness…

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Hell hath no fury…

Posted on January 6, 2008 by Jawwad

670 bank branches (out of 5000)… 900 Cars…burnt after their CD players were stolen. FAST Institute of Computer Science Campus…Set alight after robbing it of newly delivered computer servers and workstations. 58 killed via bullets, knives and fire including 8 burnt alive at work… God knows how many miles of railway track, rail engines and…

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It is not easy playing the game that is words…

Posted on January 6, 2008 by Jawwad

I have chosen to walk on the shoulder of giants… Daughter of the West by Tariq Ali, ex-BBC, The Leopard and the Fox, in self imposed exile. The LBR piece written on 13th December 2007, paints an alternate picture of the princess in Pink. Pakistan after Benazir by Adil Najam, at All Things Pakistan, talks…

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Untitled – Two

Posted on January 6, 2008 by Jawwad

And a great game it was. Enough has been said already about our Desdemona, slain in naught, her blood spilled in vain. For her kingdom was pillaged and raped in her name. It is not easy playing the game that is words.

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Untitled – I

Posted on January 6, 2008 by Jawwad

It is not easy playing the game that is words. Every day since the 27th, I have thought about doing a post… I felt sadness when I saw the first flash on BBC, not for a nation, but for three grieving children… Then came horror when the first sms arrived “Office will reopen on Monday,…

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Making pitches that last…

Posted on December 21, 2007 by Jawwad

Lessons learnt If you have something important to say, say it within the first 10 minutes. Rather than closing with a bang (the most important slide of your presentation), start with one. If a pitch is not important enough for you to practice, it is not important enough to be made. Respect the time, the…

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Another day, another year, another deal – II

Posted on December 21, 2007 by Jawwad

19th December 2007. Five years down the road, I think our biggest achievement is that we now have great candidates coming in as walk in(s). We still don’t advertise on traditional media except for the occasional once in six months posts on GOF and the “We are hiring” fliers at FAST, CBM and IBA. And…

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