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Whistle blowing!
Back in the early days of my Banking career my Bank which was an affiliate of citibank introduced me to an amazing audit feature called whistle blowing. The main objective of this practice is to ensure everyone, including senior management hold a high level of ethics and morale towards work. By this I mean not [...]
Deep Sea Thinking
What would happen if an F-16 or a new Jumbo Jet landed in the time of the Romans, or the Pharoe’s or even before or surprised Jenkis Khan during his domination?What would the look on their faces be when they thought their invention of gun powder was the new might and you nuked them? OK [...]
He only did 1 thing, very well .
He never missed a promotion. He was loved by his mother. He was the envy of the competition wherever he worked.He easily made friends. He loved people, even though he was stamped as an introvert. He manages conflict with ease. He had one wonderful thing he did, only one thing, he threw the rest, only [...]
Government Agencies Vs. Fast Food
ALBAIK is a fast food company that sells fried broasted chicken meals, it is the pinnacle of success in its industry and has given kentucky fried chicken or KFC a run for its money in Saudi Arabia. The Ministerial Agency of civil affairs is a government entity that handles the births, deaths and issuance of [...]
The advantage of the disadvantage
Looks can be deceiving, right? oh so very true! especially in a judge a book by the cover world, even if they know its wrong. The very people that have the blessing of a different look or background or even nationality have got it right. To name a few examples before I jump into my [...]
Scattered Insights
The bald hair specialist who promises to see results from that wonder hair product is just an example of the misplaced people going across the tide. Imagine a bald man/ shaven headed man advertising head & shoulders? unless it’s that powerful and promotes hair loss in 3 days, I think it would be a killer [...]
Corporate Rats
It is very easy to identify low life rodents working in corporations hiding between the 20% that actually do the work. They tend to take strange forms and postures camouflaging themselves with whatever pretend work they can get their hand on. You know the story of the rock that stayed put for a thousand years [...]
Best Toilet awards!
Do you use a public bathroom away from home? The one at work? The airport? The fastfood chain? The local mosque? The mall? or are you one of the thousands that just decides to keep it in till your home? A dirty subject but someone has to point out the health and service dangers lurking [...]
Learning to dance in the Rain
If you did not hear, its time to hear now. The country(Jeddah,Saudi Arabia) drowns every year, every single year for the last 20 years or more, yes! 20 years, not 4 or 7, 20! and guess what? its not the governments fault either. The governement as with many projects has priorities and when it locks into [...]
Then & Now
They used to gather every weekend, we used to accompany them by force, they used to have fun as sisters and brothers with their whole family, they were my aunts and uncles. We were young children then, only observers as they say, we only digested and filtered what we wanted to remember and threw the [...]