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By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 27^th December 2010.

It’s that time of year again, the end of the Gregorian calendar. It’s when executives calculate their expected bonuses. Companies tot up their end-of-year financials and congratulate themselves on how well they have done. And people at a personal level set new-year resolutions, such as buying a gym membership, which never gets used more than once or twice in that year. Read more »

By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 1^st November 2010.

If you are an aficionado of Apple computers, then is this a great time or what? Read more »

By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 6^th October 2010.

Love, beauty, honour, truth, justice. Aren’t these some of the core values that we aspire to attain at times in our lives? They are universal beliefs that tie us together which we, as parents, wish to impart upon our children. Read more »

By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 27^th September 2010.

Last week, Vince Cable, the UK coalition government’s business secretary, made a scathing attack on the “murky” world of high finance in his speech at the Liberal Democrats conference in Liverpool. Read more »

By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 7^th 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 »

By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 12^th April 2010.

I have a friend I call the axe man. The organisation he works for calls him its chief restructuring officer, or CRO – not to be mistaken with CEO, COO, CFO, CTO, CIO, or the raucous black bird. CROs are in demand these days. Read more »

By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 15^th March 2010.

Walking through the gleaming hallways of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) last week on my way to a seminar on corporate governance, I was struck by an improbable sight. Read more »

By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 11^th 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 Bahrain this Month (August 2004)

The phone rings and is answered. “Hello, how can I help”? Caller “I’m hopeless, useless (starts to cry). No one cares about me! I’m going to kill myself…..”
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