Adil Ahmad

19 th Management Association of Pakistan (MAP) Convention sets high bar, as usual, with Octara as Lead Partner Report filed by Adil Ahmad (Octara Correspondent) Large and exciting cast of characters grace the occasion…. Generous doses of good news delivered….. Attentive & highly clued in audience in the hundreds laps it all up…. Jose Cordeiro in full form, as also Soraya Sarif…. Francisco Palao Reines on first trip to Pakistan…. Sharmeen steals the show, somewhat…. Local gurus thinking global add their two bits, and hefty bits at that…. 19 th MAP Convention landmark event for sure…. Salute! Exponential change is in the air, ready or not! Some potent food for thought got served up at the 19 th MAP Convention, with Octara as the Lead Partner, that focused on the Millennials phenomenon and the general ability, or inability, of the preceding generations to understand this youthful powerhouse that is fast becoming the majority cohort in the workplace, and better ali...

Fred Van Leeuwen - Terrific Techie in Town! Interviewed by Adil Ahmad (Octara Correspondent) Fred Van Leeuwen is an international authority in the field of Information Technology (IT). Together with his son Joris, who was 19 years old at the time, he spent eight months (December 2002 to July 2003) sailing around the Atlantic Ocean in a voyage he calls a Masterclass in management. When Fred asked Joris which university course he would be following, he replied that first he was going to travel the world with his father! Ultimate Masterclass! "Can you define management as making important decisions based on limited information? Using scarce resources to reach your goal? Balancing short and long term interests? If so, then my trip was the ultimate masterclass. A few days into the main Atlantic crossing you really realise how much your survival depends on a few metres of sail and rope. We had enough fuel for just 500 of the 2,600 nautical mil...

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...