COVID-19: the future of work from home on July 17, 2020Over the years, a significant number of employees have preferred flexible work hours. During the 1980s, when cubicles were adopted in offices, a large number of office workers had been asking for flexible working- hours. This demand, especially by the women, was common even before the outbreak of a prevailing pandemic. The virus has not […]
Crises and catastrophes — a real test of leadership on June 11, 2020Pandemics, disasters, crises and catastrophes pose extraordinary challenges for leaders. Facing the grim times is the real test of leadership. If stakes are low then most rulers are willing to take risks, but if the penalties for failure are large then most leaders think many times before taking a decision. Wallach, a US film actor […]
Reforms in Joint Forces Command on December 30, 2019The tri-service coordination, vital for jointness of operations, was miserably lacking in our war with India in 1971. Till the evening of D-Day, the Pakistan Navy (PN) did not know the H-Hour. As such, the PN could not take the initiative, like it did in 1965 war when it had the upper hand and bombed […]
Will there be a Cyber War? on September 8, 2019Planning and executing successful cyber-attacks need human and financial resources. “War is an act of force to compel the enemy to do our will,” wrote Clausewitz, a military theorist and Prussian general, in his book, “On War.” It is a formal fight between the two or a group of enemies at a larger scale that […]