Shiraz and his work

Mr. Wali Zahid, a Futurist and a C-level Coach, joined the leadership class at IoBM, for a guest speaker session. He spoke of how Change within an organization can be managed and led. While managing change, a manager only lowers the expectations of the people and delivers certain outcomes without any mischief. But for a leader, when he deals with Change, he creates a process of change where you have no news about the future or what’s in store now. The change is DISRUPTIVE. It is riotous and you are never aware what’s coming your way. For anyone who induces change, are meant to face a bad response. People are not generally comfortable while they are pulled out of their comfort zone and hence they show resistance and every change initiative will lead to resentment. But it is integral, that they are allowed to express themselves Whenever change is inculcated, it is passes through different stages. This starts from shock, when the customer is not okay with change being introduc

We sometimes become too much occupied in our routine that all we do is just follow the same pattern either willingly or unwillingly. The reason behind this is that we, most of the time, fail to remember WHY we actually started.  Did it ever happen to you that you suddenly blacked-out halfway through something and asked yourself "Why am I doing this?" Well, to avoid yourself from asking these questions in your 30s you have to do something in your 20s. No not just learning. These extra efforts which will eventually become a part of your daily routine but will add productivity and meaning to your life instead of monotony and frustration. The benefits of such additional stuff will not be visible instantly. Instead, they will serve as long-term payback in the form of personality characteristics. These are: READING It is not merely skimming though facebook feeds or boring course books. It is the voluntary input and desire for enhancing limited knowledge. Reading wil

Most of us have been educated in a world where the skills we are taught are those that are vital to get you a job after school, college, or higher education. The problem is these skills are for current jobs, even though you'll be employed years later. If you're a student who is a few years away from their first job, here is a look at 5 skills that you'll need in the future, which may not be as important or even academically imparted today. 1 - Soft Skills According to the World Economic Forum, over a third of the skills you are taught now, which are vital for success today, won't be the same in the next 5 years. According to a study by the Argentinian Ministry of Education, covering roughly 900 organizations, soft skills such as responsibility, teamwork, commitment and loyalty are all skills that will be crucial in the future. To meet the growing demand for soft skills, the ministry is changing its curriculum to ensure these skills are being taught in a variet

Witnessing this era of rapid transformation in corporate world, we can conveniently predict the coming years to be extremely competitive and fast paced. The commercial revolution has taken every organization by storm, hence modifying the concept of a mainstream job. The firms are now changing their job structures and expecting the potential employees to be upgraded from mere classroom knowledge to exceptional practical abilities. Traditional skills are no more appealing for employers. The bar for desired proficiencies has been raised and skills in demand today are expected to become obsolete by the year 2020. According to LinkedIn career expert Catherine Fisher, ‘some skills expire every couple of years.’ This shows the temporariness and rapid obsoleteness of proficiencies.  This alarming forecast pulls us out from our comfort zones which circles around getting