Adil Ahmad

Report filed by Adil Ahmad, Correspondent, The Octara Magazine Dr. Peter Senge is the Senior Lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and has been named “Strategist of the Century” by the Journal of Business Strategy, and rated amongst World’s Most Influential Business Thinkers by The Financial Times, Business Week & The Wall Street Journal. He was ranked in “Thinkers 50” in 2007, and developed the concept of “The Learning Organization.” Dr. Peter Senge is the Founding Chair of the Society of Organizational Learning. PULL QUOTE 1: “The important thing is to do what is really important to you, and that is often going to be not what goes on in the classroom.” PULL QUOTE 2: “What does it take to lead in an interdependent global environment and foster innovation in times of unprecedented change?” PULL QUOTE 3: “True leadership is about cultivating the collective capacity for people to shape futures they truly desire.” PULL QUOTE 4: “True lea...

To call it a high energy day would be in the nature of an understatement. When Supercoach Ramiz Allawala is conducting proceedings there’s never a dull moment. When he is joined by superfit Hassan Rizwan brimming with entrepreneurial zeal then the pace accelerates in quantum fashion that defies the gravitational force, much like the F-16 would. Adding further fuel to the already blinding fireworks was Kanwal Akhtar, a communication and personal development whizz who mellowed the discourse with her feminine touch and which also served to camouflage her reverse swings that she bowled with admirable ease. The 80 delegates representing 18 leading business houses of Pakistan had their mental g-suits on, and displayed remarkable mental agility in the face of some formidable gyrations that the trainers put them through as they celebrate with great gusto the 10 th anniversary of Octara. Dr. S. A. Rab was missed. He was to be...

By Adil Ahmad  (former chairman Karachi Squash Association, and chef-de-mission and  manager of the 1981 Pakistan Squash Team – Jahangir Khan, Qamar Zaman, Maqsood Ahmed and Daulat Khan – that won the World Team Championships in Stockholm (Sweden) beating Australia in the final).  Few men have raised the profile of their country in the world the way that Jahangir has. He is perhaps the only good remembrance that we have from the Zia-ul-Haq era, and even there many would disagree. What good was it conquering the world of a squishy black rubber ball when the country itself was going broke? But skeptics aside, the emergence of Jahangir on the world stage threw Pakistan a lifeline at a time when the Pakistani people were tottering on the verge of terminal depression. A popularly elected leader had been strung up in unceremonious fashion by jackboots that had managed to lose half the country not so long ago. In a way Jahangir embodied the indomitable spiri...