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Upscaling Human Capital

yesterday 20

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Decline and decay of moral values

“Cum finis est licitus, etiam media sunt lictia” is the Latin for “the end justifies the means”. No. It doesn’t and must not be sanctioned...

10.07.2025 20

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Leadership & Positional Power

08.07.2025 20

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Arrogance of power

Dante in “Inferno” wrote, “Pride, avarice and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a babel of despair”. Arrogance is a serious disease of...

03.07.2025 30

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Never Sent, Never Signed

30.06.2025 50

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Fortifying goodwill, protecting gains

Abigail Adams, mother of John Quincy Adams (a founding father and the sixth president of the USA) wrote to him at the height of the revolution, “It...

26.06.2025 30

Business Recorder

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Human Resource Governance

23.06.2025 30

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

The killing fields of Gaza

Human conscience was brutally bruised when Caine killed his brother, Abel. The conscience is maimed since then. To resurrect humaneness, Abel went...

19.06.2025 20

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Freedom and Fear

16.06.2025 40

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Armed forces — an acclamation—II

Narendra Modi is seriously suffering from the effects of misadventure and is on fire. He claimed Pakistan begged for ceasefire; he is in fact refuting...

13.06.2025 10

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Armed forces — an acclamation — I

Whilst at primary school, reading “The Charge of The Light Brigade” written by Lord Alfred Tennyson, I would invariably imagine with pride our...

05.06.2025 20

Business Recorder

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Company & Imitation

01.06.2025 20

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

A saffron-clad sly old devil

The animal kingdom will most likely protest and take a serious offence if they were to be compared with the deceitful and conceited human species....

29.05.2025 10

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Habits and Identity

26.05.2025 20

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Grace in victory

The world has acknowledged by expression and silence that it is India who was the aggressor in the current standoff between itself and Pakistan. First...

22.05.2025 20

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Digital Economy

19.05.2025 50

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Country without a soul

India, under Narendra Modi, has descended to its lowliest lows. The civilization of hundreds, nay, thousands of years, has been torn to shreds. The...

15.05.2025 10

Business Recorder

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Ivory Towers

12.05.2025 20

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Ravan in saffron

In every piece that I wrote about our Eastern neighbour, the persons under the knife of dissection is Narendra Modi and his cohorts, its establishment...

08.05.2025 10

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Humility’s Power

05.05.2025 30

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Belligerent Hindustan

Indians, generally, are peace-loving people. Most Indians from Occupied Kashmir to Kannyakumari passionately subscribe to the Gandhian philosophy of...

01.05.2025 20

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Dealing with Power

28.04.2025 20

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Will to self-destruct

Perhaps, people of the subcontinent and in particular of our beloved country have the highest propensity to self-destruct. We take a certain pleasure...

24.04.2025 10

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Self-Improvement

21.04.2025 40

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Death of secular India

On the otherwise a soulful soil of the sub-continent, where peace and tranquillity prevailed, Evil was born on September 17th, 1950. This date is...

17.04.2025 60

Business Recorder

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Tete-a-Tete at Office

14.04.2025 20

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Leadership — intellect or wisdom?

Intelligence matters for leadership. Its presence is seen as a guarantee for good leadership to prevail. The premise of this thought relies on the...

10.04.2025 30

Business Recorder

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Leading by Influence

07.04.2025 10

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

A Lost Nobility

31.03.2025 20

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

SEZs and economic development

During the decade of the 1980s a paradigm shift took place in the minds of economic policy makers; the movement in thought process was rooted in the...

27.03.2025 50

Business Recorder

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Family Business Governance

24.03.2025 20

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Light of hope

Regardless of how violently the wick of hope flickers due to changing dynamics and the burden of past misdeeds, it will be a heresy of sorts to lose...

20.03.2025 10

Business Recorder

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An Organization’s Soul

17.03.2025 20

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Politics and economy

Perhaps a better caption could have been politicians and economics but a fair sense of judgement prevailed. The subject is one of an incredible...

13.03.2025 50

Business Recorder

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Listening is Stimulating

10.03.2025 20

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

The economics of war

Is war an instrument for restoration of peace or is it a necessity to keep the wheels of the economy moving and rolling? Human history is replete with...

06.03.2025 60

Business Recorder

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Leadership Under Siege

03.03.2025 30

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Career Management

24.02.2025 20

The Nation

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Niceties & Society

17.02.2025 30

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Change & Transformation

10.02.2025 50

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Corporate Manners

03.02.2025 10

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Leadership contextualized

Perhaps as a keen student of history, the quest of mine is to enquire how leadership characteristics evolve in individuals. Does a leader possess any...

30.01.2025 20

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

In Defence of Meritocracy

27.01.2025 30

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Human Capital

20.01.2025 30

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Dialogue is the answer– what’s the issue?

While checking into a major international chain of Hotels in Cairo, a couple of years back, I was intrigued more by fascination than surprise by the...

17.01.2025 30

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Traits for Excellence

13.01.2025 30

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Leadership and Vision

There is a saying: “If you don’t know where you have been or where you are, how the hell can you know where you want to go?” A leader must have...

06.01.2025 80

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

CEO - Hailed & Reviled

Chief Executive Officers are hailed as “Corporate Saviours” and also reviled as “Corporate Rascals and Scoundrels.” It all depends upon which...

30.12.2024 4

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Embracing Criticism Wisely

The human mind, in a flash, can be in both divine and devilish states. This oscillation can occur at nuclear speed or at a snail’s pace. Those who...

23.12.2024 5

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Sharing is Divine

Both activities of Learning and Giving are divine. These are concepts that are not bound by any yardstick of limits of time, place, or any scale of...

16.12.2024 6

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz