by Hashim Atiq | Oct 22, 2026 | Uncategorized
You can walk into ten luxury boutiques in Dubai on the same afternoon and have pretty much the same conversation in every one. The greeting’s the same, the questions are the same, and they come in the same order, because everyone’s been trained that asking...
by Hashim Atiq | May 30, 2026 | Emiratisation
In the meeting that takes place in every UAE organisation, in the week before an Emirati hire arrives, someone says approximately the following, “She seems lovely. Really enthusiastic. Hopefully this one will stick.” The word hopefully is doing a lot of...
by Hashim Atiq | Apr 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
I ran a session for a group of boutique managers last year, eight of them around a table, all wearing the particular expression of people who have not slept properly since the second their job title changed. I asked them a fairly simple question. How much time do you...
