Ages ago for an upcoming PASHA career expo I did a piece on hiring. A few months earlier I had done a presentation on knowledge workers at Zayed University Campus in Abu Dhabi. Today at the Nutshell forum I used ideas from both pieces to do a different take on talent management within the technology…
Travel log
Travel long enough and you will someday hit an incredibly lucky day or an incredibly interesting one. And every now and then you will get one that is a bit of both. So yesterday’s trip to Dubai started off interestingly enough! I reached the airport late and while I was fretting if Emirates would let…
Taha
I don’t know where he goes when he looks through me. His don’t disturb me, I am thinking look… If he is sitting with me, I can feel the transition and the change. The momentum shifts, he slows downs and settles, like our Civic adjusting to the fourth gear and cruising at 60 miles an…
Friends, finally…
It’s 8:40 am. I am standing outside Taha’s class waiting for him to make his grand entrance and he is waiting for Naureen to catch his eye and Naureen looks up. She whispers a few magical words and the entire class of 5 year olds streams out of KG-1B and there are hugs and kisses…
The Zong Recall…
I have gotten in trouble before by professing my weakness for the Zong campaign on this blog before. I think it’s time that I start another round of excitement. What do you say about the power of a brand recall when my 5 year old hyperactive attention deficit child with selective recall, who speak only…
How to change the world in one easy step…
Adnan (Iqbal, not Haider) first pointed me towards Khan Academy about a year ago. I took a quick peek and was suitability impressed. Then this evening Nida sent in a small note with a link to a slice of MIT article describing the work Salman has been doing and then a Google search dug up…
The Larry Ellison Fix in Karachi…
The first car that I ever wanted to drive was a Honda Accord. Don’t ask me why, there is a long convoluted tale behind that desire that goes all the way back to Abdullah Haroon Road, traffic duties as a prefect and my school days. Twelve years later the car I first learnt how to…
Looking Back II…
But despite the misery, it was a great year in many ways. It was the year… Taha learnt to write his name and graduate from therapy to his Kindergarten class at CAS. It is also the year in which he started making eye contact and speaking in clear sentences and statements. Fawzia, Taha and Salwa…
Looking back…
Seasons come and go, markets move, react & retrench but every once in a while you get touched (more like hit) by a year that will mark you for life. And so it was for 2009. Admittedly, things were already quite bleak for us in December 2008, but it was in mid 2009 that this…
What a year…
If 2009 was tough, the first week of 2010 seems to indicate that this year is going to be so much tougher. Different kind of pain though. While ’09 was depressing as our businesses self destructed around us, ’10 at least from initial appearances is going to be about staying power and persistence; hard work…