Leading Change

Daily Times published my article “Leading Change” on their editorial on Sunday 20th December 2009.

An excerpt of it is on this blog and, as always, the full article link is given below.

Leading change

Sunday, 20th December 2009

Andleeb Abbas

Every era has seen a region or a race trying to fight wars and annex freedom and power from other nations. The word ‘superpower’ is at fault. The obsession to be larger, richer and more powerful than the rest has resulted in a complete erosion of values of fairness, justice and equality.

Change or be changed, that is the tough choice we face as the year approaches its turbulent end, which perhaps in most of our lifetimes and the history of this world will separate the true from the false, the strong from the weak, the old from the new. The world has literally turned on its head this year, with everything spinning upside down from politics to economics, from psychics to cynics and from values to ethics. As citizens of this world we need to revisit all our philosophies and models of what is better for whom; as people of this country we need to activate total transformation to save ourselves from extinction; and as individuals we need to examine our purpose and mission and develop the urge for contribution. Without these changes, the writing is on the wall, i.e. act or be acted upon. Let us look at some changes needed at all levels to make this world a better place for all.


Here is the link to the full article:

Full Article