Adil Ahmad

BOOK REVIEW by Adil Ahmad (Correspondent, TCS CONNECT & OCTARA Corporate Magazines) Co-authored by Shane Cragun & Kate Sweetman, Reinvention addresses the pace of accelerating change in the modern day world, and how to best cope, indeed profit from it at both the individual and organizational levels. The future belongs to the brave is an age old adage, and the brave is invariably the one who is prepared. Amongst the formidable array of rave reviews from the world’s thought leaders, the one that best sums it up in my opinion is by Stephen M. R. Covey, the New York Times best-selling author of ‘The Speed of Trust’ and co-author of ‘Smart Trust.’ He says “Reinvention is a terrific book that gives readers a complete picture of all of the elements needed for quantum change to happen and to stick. I specially appreciate the author’s clear demonstration of how leadership is a force multiplier to every other element in their reinvention formula – at both the personal and or...

FOCUSES ON RE-INVENTING THE MODERN ORGANIZATION; OCTARA & MAP IN HIGH-ENERGY TANGO Report filed by Adil Ahmad (Correspondent, OCTARA & TCS CONNECT Corporate Magazines) The grand ballroom was brimful with corporate warriors both male and female. These were all high value human assets with the potential of becoming effective first responders as and when the promised Tsunami of accelerating change hit our shores. This was not a strategy session. Those would come later. On the 28th of September 2016 the Movenpick Hotel was the setting for a real-time face-to-face with knowing the ‘enemy’, no holds barred. There was going to be no sugarcoating the enormity of the situation in hand. Battle hardened ‘gurus’, with hindsight and foresight as their weapons of choice, had been gathered from the four corners of the globe by Octara and its dynamic duo Muhammad Arif and Jamil Janjua for this annual MAP Conclave, the 18th such in an unbroken series. They would map the te...