by Sikandar Usmani | Oct 15, 2025 | Governance
Study of Matter certainly. Matter that’s all around us, that surrounds us and that is us. That’s why this matter, matters! And as science has put it over the past millennium, it’s all about matter. And that nothing else matters! The matter, the tangibles available is...
by Sikandar Usmani | Sep 21, 2025 | Governance
Yeah! Nothing wrong being alone when you’re in the right! That’s power posturing for sure and who doesn’t like it? But mostly it’s self-serving platitude. Because who doesn’t want to claim, be seen and believe to be in the right? Especially when coming from a position...
by Sikandar Usmani | May 12, 2025 | Governance, Internal Audit
Why else do you think there was a need to protect the interests of shareholders and now a multiverse of stakeholders, through a barrage of regulations, stipulations, codes, compliance and reporting requirements? The corporate world was never expected to be fully...
by Sikandar Usmani | Apr 30, 2025 | Governance
Excellence, Euphoria of Success, Exactitude and Endless Energy literally have an ‘E’ in common. But what this ‘E’ actually means stretches far beyond the literal stance. However, you don’t have to indulge yourself into imagination to identify it. It’s as simple as...
by Sikandar Usmani | Oct 21, 2024 | Governance
While scrolling down LinkedIn posts, there was this interesting update that caught my attention for all the wrong reasons. While I misread it initially to mean something more offensive about the relationship between a leader and an organization, its correct read...
by Sikandar Usmani | Aug 30, 2024 | Governance
In a perfect world, it shouldn’t matter. Management concurrence shouldn’t be needed, and it should not be for the internal auditors to procure it. How about external auditors? Do they need it or even vie for it? Certainly not, because management understands that it’s...
