Staff Reporter
Renowned banker Sirajuddin Aziz’s book, “The Art and Craft of Management”, a collection of his articles, was launched here recently. At the ceremony, Aziz said our politicians more often in their public speeches say that Pakistan’s 65 percent population consisted of youth, but no one came up with a practical solution, namely, how to take advantage of this potential. “We have to train them. We have to make them a productive part of our economy, and that is what this book emphasizes,” he said. This is the author’s seventh publication, which Aziz said would help professionals in general and the students of management sciences in particular to learn and understand about management related arts and skills. He said the management of human resources is more complex than the management of materials. Unfortunately, there was not enough material on the very subject, he said. “Encouraged by the overwhelming response and flattering comments received by my earlier books on management, I thought to put together a compendium of my weekly articles on varied management related subjects and issues. The consequence is this book,” he said. This anthology contains articles written over a period of two years, from 2016 to 2017. The prominent banker said he was grateful to his father for having imbibed in him the habit of reading. It was not confined to any one subject but across all subjects, ranging from literature to economy, poetry to politics and religion to society. Former governor of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Yaseen Anwar, former senator Javed Jabbar, assistant professor, department of social sciences and liberal arts, Nadya Chishti Mujahid, chairman of Pathfinder Group, Ikram Sehgal, and Mirajuddin Aziz, the elder brother of the author, were among the panelists at the launch ceremony. Yaseen Anwar said the book would help professionals and students understand corporate practices. Anwar stressed the need for bringing new and unique ideas to excel in any field. Javed Jabbar said the book was very interesting and relevant to the subject of management, adding the writing was characteristically elegant and straightforward.
