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...