My Interview with Boss Magazine

Here is some of the article that they published:

Pro-activity is normally understood very literally and very restrictedly. Pro-activity is actually a huge, huge attitude. Now most of us tend to do the opposite, and what happens is that without thinking and without anticipating, when things go wrong we start blaming everybody but ourselves

Razia Khan interviewed Andaleeb Abbas, the Chief Executive Officer of FranklinCovey, Pakistan. FranklinCovey is the global Leader in the field of Developing & Building Organisational & Personal Effectiveness. They are one of the world’s largest Training Companies and listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Here is the link for the rest of the article.


They provide Training and Consulting services to more than 80 of the Fortune 100 companies, and to more than three fourth of the Fortune 500 companies, as well as thousands of mid-sized and smaller companies. They train approximately 1 million people every year and conduct over 1500 public and corporate programmes a month in more than 500 cities throughout the world.

Formed in 1997 through a merger of the Franklin Quest and the Covey Leadership Centre, the company had its foundations in the work of Dr. Stephen R. Covey, author of global bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and Mr. Hyrum Smith, author of The 10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management.

Their solution sets form a framework which inspires change and breakthrough performance. They focus on leadership, empowerment, organisational change, goal setting, productivity and execution, time and project management, teamwork and sales performance.

FranklinCovey started operations in the India & South Asia region in 2002. They began with a team of 3 individuals in two cities in India. Franklin Covey India & South Asia is amongst the most respected training companies in the region providing Effective, Committed and Value for money and efforts products and services.