Dubai: Jacky’s Electronics is a household name in the UAE. Meet Jacky Panjabi, who beat all the odds and rose like a phoenix after being fired from his job as an assistant at a tailoring shop in Hong Kong.
How would people react to being fired? Chances are, a lot of people would blame destiny for their loss, but this man had the support and encouragement of his elder brother Ishwardas Panjabi.
Jacky told his brother he would have no more of this. “Io simply told him that I did not want to work under someone. I wanted to go out on my own and my brother who was my mentor, guide, my well-wisher told me to start a company on my own.”
Dubai: Re-write the rulebook…. Or get disrupted.
That’s the one message global businesses have been told will happen to them if they don’t learn some hard lessons imparted by COVID-19. But for Ashish Panjabi, that’s a bit over the top.
Yes, change needs to be made, but not necessarily the wholesale ones that management consultants are shouting about. Or CEOs fear they will be forced to make.
“The fundamental principles of business have not changed despite the pandemic,” said the Chief Operating Officer at the tech and electronics retailers Jacky’s. “How you get there, the channels you use have changed… a little bit. That’s it.