By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 13th December 2010.
The road to senior management is littered with landmines concerning business ethics. Well, it is if you speak to academics teaching MBA courses at business schools. It is not if you ask most of the students, who really could not care less. Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 19thJuly 2010.
I was never bright enough as an 18-year-old to warrant a place at Oxford University. But last week, 21 years later, I managed to attend the Oxford University Summer School for Adults (OUSSA). Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 10th May 2010.
Have I got a great case study for you … That is not quite how I deliver my strategy and marketing training courses to clients – I don’t want to come across as a slippery life insurance salesman. Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 29th March 2010.
If you are a young leader in an organisation then I dedicate today’s column to you. If though, like me, you’re a veteran, then only read on if you can stomach self-examination. Read more »
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 »
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 »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 29th January 2010.
A series of unfortunate events have made me question whether business leaders around the world actually know what they stand for. Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 2nd December 2009.
Is it too far fetched to imagine that in the near future a ratings agency will come up with a ranking system for business professionals? Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 6th November 2009.
Recently my daughter, who is in year two at school, asked me the following question: “Daddy, what do you want to be when you grow up?” Read more »
By Rehan Khan, 10 May 2009
“Is that all you got” mouthed Muhammad Ali in 1976 as he ‘roped-a-doped’ the colossus George Foreman before taking him out with a sublime combination. Famously Foreman stayed down. Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 9th April 2009.
We’ve been brainwashed. You, me, all of us. No, I’m not having an Orwellian moment. Read more »
By Rehan Khan*. Published in Bahrain this Month (February 2005)
How would you feel if by the time your child was 18 years old, they had witnessed 32,000 murders, 40,000 attempted murders and seen 100,000 acts of violence? (1) Read more »
By Rehan Khan*. Published in Bahrain this Month (January 2005)
What’s your idea of passing the time? Is it reading a good book, going for a walk, doing some gardening? Maybe having a coffee with friends and chilling out? Or is it sitting ‘jacked into’ (1) a video game console pulverizing everything you see with ammunition that would make even Neo and Trinity from The Matrix blush?
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