Archive for June, 2010

For small business money makes the world go round

By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 28th June 2010.

There is a wonderful line spoken by the fictitious company promoter Mr Goldbury in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Utopia Limited: “Though a Rothschild you may be in your own capacity; as a company you’ve come to utter sorrow; but the liquidators say, ‘Never mind, you needn’t pay’; so you start another company tomorrow!” Read more »

Speed demons court disaster with power games

By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 21st June 2010.

As the FIFA World Cup juggernaut trundles along, I’d like to put in a word for my home town of Wimbledon. Today is the first day of the 124th championship at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in south-west London. Read more »

It is high time that values balance value in business

By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 14th June 2010.

When a business becomes untethered from society, serving no purpose but the pursuit of profit, it is time for that organisation to go back to the drawing board. Read more »

The arguments for a regional “Fat Tax” carry much weight

By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 7th June 2010.

Growth in international markets is sluggish. The local economy isn’t faring much better. But in every organisation there is one place of enormous expansion – around the waistlines of workers. Read more »