Shiraz and his work

IOBM’s experiential learning agenda set for 2015 MBA program is definitely progressing by leaps and bounds. Adding further to the cause, another invaluable guest speaking session was held which was conducted by Prof. Dr. Irfan Hyder , Dean CBM and CES at IOBM, for the class “Transformational and Ethical Leadership”, facilitated by Mr. Shiraz Ahmed. The topic of the lecture was “Ethical Leadership”. While students were being called for attendance, Dr. Irfan Hyder was planning on what and how to speak on “Ethical Leadership”. It took him only seven minutes. The lecture, hence started, as a small talk. “Ek ha Ghalib, Aur ek ha Iqbal” and the lecture started with these words. For me these words were the initials (topic) of the lecture. As a keen listener and observer, I knew it instantly that this lecture is going to be insightful and fun. It seems that academic leaders like Prof. Dr. Irfan Hyder himself just can’t get enough of Iqbal and Ghalib. I have rarely attended any

Mr Maulvi started his talk with a very bold statement, that leaders cant take status quo and that change is inevitable. The best thing about his talk was it was less of academic and more of a talk entirely based on experience. He later emphasized that the world evolved, regions developed, communication enhanced and final there was some cross-cultural interaction. These are all transactional phases of human development. Later he stressed on the fact that if you use humans as a a resource, you are devaluing human. Moreover, he educated us about the fact that Human Capital in Iobm is replacing Human Resource as well. The fact that human behavior is more important than money and status and that intellectual and mechanical ability of humans has evolved tremendously over time. Considering all these factors, intellectual capital is the key. The talk shifted to leaders and again Mr Maulvi, did not fail to make a bold statement. Leading people is the opposite of contro

An inspirational session given by Dr. Shahzad on transformational leadership. He was focused on how a particular vision can be turned into reality, how leadership should be practiced and transformation can attain sustainability. “Leadership is a practice based profession”, said by Dr. Shahzad. Learning should always be followed by practice and the secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting old but on building new. One should need to look up on those things which he can easily continue in order to sustain transformation . The speaker moreover gave a deep insight about Getz Pharma and in this regard related every aspect to their practices. Getz Pharma is a research driven, branded generic, manufacturing pharmaceutical company with global outlook. It is third largest pharma company, largest exporter, tax payer, employer and investor as well. The company believes in Darwin’s theory of being change responsive thus it makes long ranged plan and changes its

Millennia’s are tech savvy trendsetters; they are hasty and erratic with shifting loyalties. However they are a multi-tasking, result oriented generation who are socially connected, they feed on information as well as innovatively employ ways to create it and this generation is the new and future employees of various companies. The topic I choose focusing on millennial how they can become future leaders and for this we have mobile phone users in Pakistan. Their nature of work and trends need to be realized to retain this erratic and impulsive bunch of workers, this is what they seek in organization. They need to be motivated by potential for career development and growth within once choice of profession. In fact they not only effectively seek opportunities within an organization to grow as an employee, but also seek similar opportunities outside the firm amongst competitors. Secondly this generation gets a high on self-empowerment, they like to see in control and prefer working a