Articles

  Ahmad M. Rashid, PhD | Partner
  28th August, 2017

In the field of project management, many researchers have highlighted the existing interrelationships between ...

  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...

  Charles J. Tawk | Senior Consultant
  31st May, 2017

A successful organisation has three major characteristics: individuals contributing to its success, practices ...

  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...

  Alaa R. Elbaz | Partner
  9th March, 2017

In today’s competitive business environment, it is imperative for every organization to have the capability ...

  Ahmad A. Ghannoum | Senior Consultant
  19th December, 2016

In September of 1999, I found myself manning bananas at Istanbul’s Bayrampaşa Hali, Turkey’s largest frui...

  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...

  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 ...

  Jamal A. Said | Senior Consultant
  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...

  Charles J. Tawk | Senior Consultant
  19th July, 2016

Workforce downsizing has spread and become a worldwide phenomenon affecting not only developed countries but a...

  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...

  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...

  Ghassan N. Nakfoor | Partner
  29th December, 2015

Scientists call stress “the disease of the 21st Century”. Indeed, people around the world seem to ...

  Jamal A. Said | Senior Consultant
  20th December, 2015

Every year companies lose billions of dollars due to employee turnover. When we realize most of it is actually...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  Mohamed Alsinnawi | Senior Consultant
  7th April, 2015

In my many years of experience consulting for public and private sector clients, effective performance measure...

  Samer K. Taher | Managing Director
  18th March, 2015

Every now and then a new management fad or buzzword parachutes down onto the corporate world and starts influe...

  Samer K. Taher | Managing Director
  3rd March, 2015

The term “strategy” may not be the most used buzzword in management nowadays but I am pretty sure it ranks...

  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...

  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...

  Jamal A. Said | Senior Consultant
  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...

  Chaouki M. Eid | Deputy Managing Director
  28th January, 2015

Albert Einstein defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different result...

  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...

  Ahmad A. Ghannoum | Senior Consultant
  28th January, 2015

Aligning your strategy and operational routines to your environment can produce sustainable success for your o...

  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...

  Chaouki M. Eid | Deputy Managing Director
  28th January, 2015

Effective inventory management is aimed at finding the optimum between the high availability of inventory item...

  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...

  Samer K. Taher | Managing 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...

  Samer K. Taher | Managing 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...

  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...

  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...

  Samer K. Taher | Managing 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...

  Samer K. Taher | Managing Director
  28th January, 2015

When Helen Keller, the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1904, made this statement ...

  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...

  Jamal A. Said | Senior Consultant
  20th January, 2015

Mention humility and our minds conjure up imagery of religious figures, and self-effacing individuals in modes...

  Ahmad A. Ghannoum | Senior Consultant
  23rd December, 2014

When asked to describe his feelings as he departed earth’s atmosphere into outer space, astronaut John Glenn...