Airliner’s Taxiway book

The first book ever about the world of commercial airlines specially designed for the Arab region. www.taxiway.org

The Best Leadership Advice I Ever Got – By Marshall Goldsmith

Real leaders are not people who can point out what is wrong. Almost anyone can do that. Real leaders are people who can make things better. via The Best Leadership Advice I Ever Got – Marshall Goldsmith. This is a great advice. One that I have been very slow to learn.

Justifying the unjustified again

I was thinking recently about the power of poetry to convince people with things which may otherwise be meaningless. I noticed that the power of poetry in shaping the human mindset is so great and you can see how a national anthem for example could charge national sentiments and a love poem would inflame the [...]

Out of Qatar

I’m in Doha international airport heading back to Syria after two days. I don’t really understand the depression that I feel here. It’s a developing country with the requirements of success at it’s reach. Although, the market is still badly under-served and controled by monopoly in major industries. One more thing which makes me crazy [...]

Complacency is the price of success

I learned that “Complacency is the price of success.” Complacency is the self satisfaction that makes the person unaware of possible dangers. 

As Barriers Disappear, Some Gender Gaps Widen – NYTimes.com

When men and women take personality tests, some of the old Mars-Venus stereotypes keep reappearing. On average, women are more cooperative, nurturing, cautious and emotionally responsive. Men tend to be more competitive, assertive, reckless and emotionally flat. Clear differences appear in early childhood and never disappear. Findings – As External Barriers Disappear, Internal Gender Gaps [...]

A marketing failure

Blogger ‘Ted Mininni’ was discussing a book called Obsessive Branding Disorder on the DailyFix Marketing blog today. The point is that “companies spend billions of dollars to carefully craft images and messages that are often at odds with the quality of the very products and services under the brand umbrella.” What comes to my mind [...]

Women managers again

I have to admit, since I last wrote about women managers a blog post which gave me a lot of attacking feed back, I have been revisiting my thoughts. And I’m not only interested about business differences, real life differences much more diverse and unsolvable. For sure many differences are there. They vary between places, [...]

Windows vista: a historical mistake

I spent the whole day today struggling with a friend’s PC trying to make windows vista work properly with hardware. And I must tell you it’s a big challenge. The way Vista expects every peace of software to abide by its rules and be compatible with it makes me crazy. The thing is that Microsoft [...]

Test your broadband speed

I have tested the speed of my leased line service of 256Kb/s. This is the result I got (which is fairly acceptable). The variance between the advertised speed and the actual speed is becoming a problem in the world. Go to speedtest.net to test yours. I think it’s worth mentioning that based on data from [...]