14/09/2024
: Ten Anecdotes from the Life & Work of Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai
Source: Two books, (1) 'My Story’ by Sheikh Mohammed and (2) ‘The Sheikh CEO: Lessons in Leadership’ by Dr. Yasar Jarrar. Grateful to my dear friend Anand Thorat for getting me these precious gifts all the way from Dubai!
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Several countries in the world have made giant strides during the last 50-odd years thereby transitioning from developing to more advanced economies and greatly improving their overall quality of life. The most notable one's are Singapore, United Arab Emirates (Dubai & Abu Dhabi more particularly), Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, China, and of course India.
Behind most of these giant strides, there are visionary policymakers and reformers like Lee Kuan Yew (1959–1990) of Singapore, Park Chung-hee (1961–1979) of South Korea, Deng Xiaoping (1978–1992) of China, Narendra Modiji, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (1971–2004) of Abu Dhabi, and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (2006 to date) of Dubai to name a few.
In this blog, let’s delve deeper and learn from ten super-interesting anecdotes from Sheikh Mohammed’s life and work, the visionary leader of Dubai who is credited for transforming Dubai into a global wonder.
We all recently got a glimpse of this charismatic & decisive leader in the Netflix series ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’. As the UAE Minister of Defense then, he had not only allowed IC 814 to stop for refueling and provided medical assistance to injured passengers, his intervention ensured the release of 27 hostages, mostly women, children, and the injured.
This and my next two posts will unveil three of these 10 anecdotes, post which the complete blog will be available . Today’s post is on Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world.
Anecdote 1: BURJ KHALIFA
“What is the point of having average goals in life? Every goal should be a moonshot.”…Sheikh Mohammed
Kindly go through this anecdote on www.vikrantvartak.com/blog
