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  Prof. John Walker FBCS CISM CRISC CITP ITPC FRSA | Course Facilitator
  20th November, 2018

Having encountered several friends and associates who have suffered, what seemed to be sustained Phishing Camp...

  Jean Billingsley | Course Facilitator
  4th November, 2018

Why can’t engineers answer a simple question?” is a typical remark I hear from someone who works with engi...

  Maroun E. Zgheib | Senior Consultant
  18th June, 2018

Under the current U.S tax regulations, American companies are required to pay a 35% tax rate on profits genera...

  Charles J. Tawk | Senior Consultant
  18th June, 2018

Psychology has traditionally concentrated on resolving pathological problems. This was the reactive and healin...

  George R. Khayat | Partner
  17th May, 2018

Leadership is a hot topic which has been explored through countless models. In this paper we discuss The Leade...

  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...

  Ibrahim Al Yafi | Partner
  28th November, 2017

Let’s start this article by eavesdropping on this conversation between two employees:

  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 | Partner
  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 | 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...

  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 | Partner
  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 | Board 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 | 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...

  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...

  Ahmad A. Ghannoum | Partner
  28th January, 2015

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

  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...

  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 | Managing Director
  28th January, 2015

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

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

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

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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 ...

  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...

  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 | Partner
  20th January, 2015

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

  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...