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...

Ghazan Khan, the wise old man of Shireen Jinnah Colony “Imran Khan wants to jump straight onto the roof,” says Ghazan Khan as he goes about repairing an old radio not worth very much and quite pre-historic in the modern scheme of things. But a reassuring sight, nonetheless, that there are still people in the world who treasure their old things and intent on getting them fixed and working. “But to climb to the roof requires a ladder and a one step at a time approach.” As a social scientist I have often frequented the Shireen Jinnah Colony. It presents a fascinating mosaic of Pakistan’s frontier spirit, and has gained a fair bit of notoriety in the guns and drugs bazaar, though unjustly I feel. This is hub of the mighty tanker-trawlers that ply the nation’s highways, carting all manner of liquid goods, inflammable and otherwise, from the massive tanker storages that dot the Kemari landscape. These behemoths of the road are ridden by seasoned riders accustomed to seasoning their endur...

Memon Professional Forum’s 5 th Entrepreneurship Conference 2015 advocates Hope + Risk + Belief as recipe for success Celebrating three decades of a very vibrant existence, the Memon Professional Forum (MPF) brought together an impressive array of leading lights from the worlds of trade, commerce and industry to dwell upon the phenomenon that is entrepreneurship, in its search for peace, progress and prosperity for Pakistan. The heavyweights on board comprised M. Ali Tabba (CEO, Lucky Cement Limited), Arif Habib (CEO, Arif Habib Corporation), and Khalid Awan (Founder & Chairman TCS Holdings Private Limited), with Moin M. Fudda (Country Director, Center for International Private Enterprise) and Rafiq Rangoonwala (COO, Burger King Pakistan) providing the stimulus for thought provoking discussions. The Conference celebrated Dr. Abdul Bari Khan and his social enterprise the Indus Hospital built on ‘Pukhta Yaqeen’ (firm belief). Conference proceedings began with the conve...