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Jamal A. Said | Partner
25th January, 2018
Welcome! Take a seat. Make sure to hang on tight. By the time you finish reading this article (let us assume a...
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Ibrahim Al Yafi | Partner
28th November, 2017
Let’s start this article by eavesdropping on this conversation between two employees:
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Ahmad M. Rashid, PhD | Partner
28th August, 2017
In the field of project management, many researchers have highlighted the existing interrelationships between ...
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Maroun E. Zgheib | Senior Consultant
2nd August, 2017
Saudi Arabia (KSA) represents around 45% of the GCC economy and is the biggest economy in the Middle East. Liv...
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Charles J. Tawk | Senior Consultant
31st May, 2017
A successful organisation has three major characteristics: individuals contributing to its success, practices ...
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Fadi R. Chahrouri | Partner
4th April, 2017
There are days like that, when from the moment you wake up everything seems to point to a single direction; to...
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Alaa R. Elbaz | Partner
9th March, 2017
In today’s competitive business environment, it is imperative for every organization to have the capability ...
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Ahmad A. Ghannoum | Partner
19th December, 2016
In September of 1999, I found myself manning bananas at Istanbul’s Bayrampaşa Hali, Turkey’s largest frui...
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Fawzi A. Bawab | Partner
22nd November, 2016
During my training sessions and coaching assignments, I often get asked the following question: “What do I h...
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Jimmy S. Haddad | Partner
16th October, 2016
A spark is all it takes to analyze matters thoroughly and this article was triggered by a legitimate question ...
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Jamal A. Said | Partner
6th October, 2016
2016 is proving to be the hottest year on record. As a citizen of this wonderful planet, I take a keen interes...
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Charles J. Tawk | Senior Consultant
19th July, 2016
Workforce downsizing has spread and become a worldwide phenomenon affecting not only developed countries but a...
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Maroun E. Zgheib | Senior Consultant
12th July, 2016
What is the next move for oil prices? Is it a recovery back to the $110 five-year high of September 2013, a re...
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Ahmad M. Rashid, PhD | Partner
20th June, 2016
Risk is inevitable in projects and there is no such a thing as a risk-free project. The question that should b...
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Ghassan N. Nakfoor | Partner
29th December, 2015
Scientists call stress “the disease of the 21st Century”. Indeed, people around the world seem to ...
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Jamal A. Said | Partner
20th December, 2015
Every year companies lose billions of dollars due to employee turnover. When we realize most of it is actually...
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Ahmad M. Rashid, PhD | Partner
21st October, 2015
In addition to the technical and economic aspects of innovation, social dimension plays an important role in d...
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Ahmad M. Rashid, PhD | Partner
28th September, 2015
Diffusion of innovation is summarized as the spread of abstract ideas and concepts within the organization. Fu...
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Ahmad M. Rashid, PhD | Partner
15th September, 2015
It is said that the “only constant thing in life is change”. Organizations are faced everyday with new cha...
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Charles J. Tawk | Senior Consultant
28th May, 2015
Employee engagement is something that has always intrigued me. I have read a great deal of books and white pap...
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Mohamed Alsinnawi | Senior Consultant
7th April, 2015
In my many years of experience consulting for public and private sector clients, effective performance measure...
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Samer K. Taher | Board Director
18th March, 2015
Every now and then a new management fad or buzzword parachutes down onto the corporate world and starts influe...
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Samer K. Taher | Board Director
3rd March, 2015
The term “strategy” may not be the most used buzzword in management nowadays but I am pretty sure it ranks...
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Farid A. Muna | PhD - Board Member
29th January, 2015
How many roles does a leader play? Undoubtedly, there are many more than seven; but the following are seven ro...
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Maher A. Rayes | Deputy Managing Director
28th January, 2015
Does this statement sound familiar? On numerous occasions during my training programs I’ve heard such uttera...
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Jamal A. Said | Partner
28th January, 2015
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who do...
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Chaouki M. Eid | Managing Director
28th January, 2015
Albert Einstein defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different result...
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Fadi R. Chahrouri | Partner
28th January, 2015
It was a beautiful sunny day, and after a pleasant two hour drive with my wife and our two boys we reached our...
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Ahmad A. Ghannoum | Partner
28th January, 2015
Aligning your strategy and operational routines to your environment can produce sustainable success for your o...
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Alaa R. Elbaz | Partner
28th January, 2015
In the summer of 1998, I was visiting some of my friends and family in Boston. Although, the city has a lot t...
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Chaouki M. Eid | Managing Director
28th January, 2015
Effective inventory management is aimed at finding the optimum between the high availability of inventory item...
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Walid I. Fraiha | Senior Consultant
28th January, 2015
I was explaining the concept of “Assets” during one of the “finance for non-finance” training programs...
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Samer K. Taher | Board Director
28th January, 2015
If you’re like me, a devout left brainer, then the analogy you are about to read is going to fit nicely into...
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Samer K. Taher | Board Director
28th January, 2015
I am often asked by clients "what is the best way to select candidates after they have applied to an organizat...
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Fadi R. Chahrouri | Partner
28th January, 2015
It was a very sad day, the day I lost my innocence; I remember it vividly, sitting in my cubicle pouring throu...
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Ahmad M. Rashid, PhD | Partner
28th January, 2015
In 2010, Meirc lead a regional research that covered 12 countries (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bah...
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Samer K. Taher | Board Director
28th January, 2015
(Some of you will go through this article and then dismiss it as babble worth nothing more than its title. Thi...
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Samer K. Taher | Board Director
28th January, 2015
When Helen Keller, the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1904, made this statement ...
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Maroun E. Zgheib | Senior Consultant
28th January, 2015
Whether chatting with finance or non-finance professionals, every so often the term goodwill arises. Being a v...
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Jamal A. Said | Partner
20th January, 2015
Mention humility and our minds conjure up imagery of religious figures, and self-effacing individuals in modes...
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Ahmad A. Ghannoum | Partner
23rd December, 2014
When asked to describe his feelings as he departed earth’s atmosphere into outer space, astronaut John Glenn...
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