Disclaimer: Mathematicians and actuaries; do not read the rest of this article, it will offend your calculative sensibilities. Do you have a minute? A question I hear almost daily from work colleagues. I too use it to borrow other people’s…
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Going through security checks at Riyadh Airport where, as in every other international airport, you have to empty your pockets and rid yourself of anything remotely metallic, by placing it in the obligatory tray to push through the X-Ray machine. …
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Somewhere between the age of 25 and 45, when we are at the peak of our involvement in career matters and competing for the next position up the greasy pole of corporate life, we go through phases of longing for…
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I once worked for a multi-national company who organised an annual 3-day conference aimed at the 100 most senior employees of the company out of some 3,000. At great expense in time and money, we met, presented our success stories,…
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A lot of politics we’ve been having lately…
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Emails keep coming back to blight my life, on daily basis. In spite the fact that I try to minimize my own output of emails, the overall rate of emails I have to deal with continues to increase. I have…
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A medical centre in Bahrain run largely by Indians, charge you modest fees, take your picture; a copy of your passport/ID; X-ray your chest, take blood, urine and stool samples (sorry about that); measure your weight & height, and blood…
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I cannot tell you how often I traveled far to attend meetings that said a lot and produced little or nothing…
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Surviving corporate politics is a difficult art to master
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