Mahtab Uddin Ahmed

Incidentally, in the last few months, I had the privilege of spending time with a few top executive-level friends who shared their experiences of being victims of corporate politics. In most cases, their bosses used them as scapegoats to protect themselves.

While struggling to find the English for “Hujuge Bangali” I decided that its essence gets somewhat lost in any other language, so I gave up. In the 80s, there was a mushrooming growth of small-size textiles, followed by a boom in the garments industry.    

An organisation is like a tree full of monkeys on different limbs at different levels. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces.

My son has his own studio and content creation platform where many influencers record their programmes. Last week, a very successful entrepreneur was interviewed. He explained that during the pandemic, he created an online marketplace that became highly successful.

The tales of the cunning fox deceiving other animals are integral to our childhood. In one of these stories, this mother crocodile leaves her five babies with the clever fox to tutor them.

Economists dub the lottery a stupidity tax because the odds of getting any payoff by investing in a lottery ticket are approximately equivalent to flushing the money down the toilet.

Saquib used to work at a pizza joint where the manager happened to be very miserly.

While studying the prospects of a digital university, I met one of our finest vice-chancellors who have the vision to launch a true digital university. During our discussion,

During my university days, I was asked by my father to take charge of a horticulture project on a large piece of hilly land in our village in Cumilla.

Two friends, Pessimist and Optimist, were on a bus ride when the latter suggested they stop for a meal.

A cop caught an addict with drugs in a public toilet.

Ramadan is increasingly becoming a month of feasting and festivities instead of charity, where profiteering in business, fun, and frolic are the mantra

A college friend who was once an outstanding student failed to do well in his IT career. His family of two university students barely managed with his single income until the pandemic.

In one of my expat job locations, I discovered that the status symbol of that society would be having a western CEO in their company.

In recent times, people seem to be smitten with the term, blockchain, popping it into conversations without much knowledge of the concept.

There was once a young and talented woman who got a job at a corporate giant.

Many of you have probably heard the “Bitcoin Pizza Story” where this man buys a pizza with 10,000 Bitcoins as the value of Bitcoin at the time was only a few cents.

A common sight during winter months in recent years has been the distribution of blankets by our politicians, corporate leaders and businessmen to communities with little or no real need for them.

The anchor of a popular US talk show confronted Alexa, an artificial intelligence (AI) bot, regarding complaints from its users concerning Alexa’s creepy laugh.

Some common complaints are: my friends don’t listen to me, my colleagues don’t listen to me, my husband doesn’t listen to me, and even my parents don’t listen to me.