Leadership and Legacies
Abdulhussain Muhammed Tejani (Dubai, UAE) is a Change Architect in Leadership and HR and has been involved in many capacities in the community and through pro bono work with youths. Presently, he is the Chief People Officer in Leadership and HR at People Matter, and an accredited Trainer for the Human Capital Institute (US).HR DIRECTOR/ VP HR
Human Resources Vice President focused on designing and delivering effective people management, talent development and workforce planning strategies to create a high-performance culture. Built a 24-year career encompassing HR and Learning and development directorships within global healthcare, banking, education, petroleum, market research and information companies covering the MENA region.
Effectively led pre and post-merger initiatives to integrate and harmonise HR personnel, systems and functions. Developed trust and credibility of the HR function, embedding processes and systems within wider business strategy and monitoring their operational impact. A key influencer and change agent who skilfully liaises with board-level executives, senior management and business unit heads in securing commitment to change management initiatives, as well as policy and procedure implementation. An engaging and inspirational leader adept at coaching, mediating and resolving employee relations issues. Experienced in modernising compensation and benefits structures, as well as establishing strategic partnerships to aid people development and the accomplishment of overarching business objectives.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Organisation Design and Restructure People Management Talent Development HR Strategy Workforce Planning Recruitment & Selection Change Management Employee Relations Compensation & Benefits Industrial Relations Training & Development Mediation, Negotiation, Dispute Resolution Project Management Policies and Procedures Development Performance Management
T
en beggars can sleep on one rug, but two leaders feel uncomfortable in one organisation or country.
What is it about power that corrupts us? Is it that arrogance creeps in, or do leaders consider themselves perfect because they have “arrived”? It seems a bit strange, as it is contradictory to a person’s main goal in life of becoming a better person. Isn’t it a terrible era that we live in, in which the nincompoops govern the blind? Perhaps I am naïve and simplistic and am barking up the wrong tree!
We now live in a world where the right knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. When those in power realised that pure fear would no longer work, they made laws and policies that were unjust merely to punish us for not kowtowing. How long can we remain silent and live with the politics that disengages us and divides us?
Evil hides behind the most beautiful smile… While telling the most beautiful lies. It will tell you that it loves and appreciates you… While it eats your soul alive.
Until we learn the lesson, the lesson will not stop showing up. The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. When things don’t go our way, we blame or feign ignorance to remain in our delusional zone.
What price is one’s knowledge? A learned man without goodness is akin to an archer without a bow. Remember that not all classrooms have four walls. These lessons come when we least expect it in ways unfathomable to us. It needs us to be awake to the learning possibility. If your life is cluttered, you will not seize the opportunity to learn. The usefulness of a cup is its emptiness, as therein lies the opportunity to fill it with the ideal elixir. Free the mind!
So, heed that the greatest challenge of being alive is to witness injustice and yet not allow it to consume your light. You are powerful beyond compare and let no one persuade you otherwise.
If you wish to gage your contribution to the world, look to your wounds. When you learn how to heal them, teach others. In this endeavour one’s epitaph will read like the legacy you wish to leave behind. Can you afford to grow old, look back and feel as though you lived an unfulfilled life? The move you are scared to make today might be the game changer for your tomorrow. Fall seven times, Stand up eight.
Question: do you care enough to matter to yourself?
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