Archive for February, 2010

Business success must survive the cult of personality

By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 25th February 2010.

Building an organisation around a certain person can at times be a stroke of genius and other times a ghastly error. Read more »

I promise to do good on my way to the top

By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 17th February 2010.

If you are a 30-something business executive who has fallen on hard times as the grim reaper runs his scythe through your company, chances are you may now be enrolled in an MBA programme, or at least thinking about joining one. Read more »

Workers united make better business owners

By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 11th February 2010.

At the end of Muhammad Ali’s commencement address to students and professors at Harvard University in 1975, a member of the audience asked him for a poem. The former world heavyweight boxing champion spontaneously coined what is regarded as the shortest rhyme in the English language. It went like this “Me, We.” Read more »

Genuine competition needed in telecoms

By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 2nd February 2010.

Telecommunications operators have a love-hate relationship with their business customers. Companies and organisations love their telecoms operator when they are looking for sponsorship or donations. The rest of the time they hate them. It is no different here. Read more »