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THE SENTIENT HEART: LEADERS IN LEADERSHIP ROLE

AZIUDDIN AHMAD, PhDProfessor of Risk Management

THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENTUNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA

6th JULY 2009

ORANGE BOOK

CROSS ASSIGNMENT DAY

ONENESS

BEYOND COMPLIANCE DISCLOSURE

FITRAH IHSAN ADAB

LEADERSHIP GOVERNANCE

STEWARD LEADER?

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• EVIDENCE IN SCIENCE – QUANTUM PHYSICS

• TRADITIONS OF THE MYSTICS

THE UNIVERSE – OF ONENESS

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THE LENS OF SCIENCE

CARTESIAN-NEWTONIAN EINSTEINIAN

- Clockwork (blind watchmaker)

- No place for transcendence

- Predictability

- Objectivity

- Purposelessness

OLD LENS NEW LENS

- Non-locality principle

- Accommodates transcendence

- Interpretation

- Subjectivity

- Purposefulness

New Lens illuminates things which are invisible with old lens

Quantum Science BRINGS BACK man to the centre

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THE UNIVERSE & HUMAN

MIND/BRAIN UNIVERSE HUMAN

World within World out there

NO ONE-to-ONE CORRESPONDENCE

MATERIAL & NON-MATERIAL

CONSCIOUSNESS – MATERIAL & NON-MATERIAL?

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE HUMAN?

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THE NEED TO BRING BACK THE SACREDNESS OF HUMAN

BEING

Artificial Person

Secular Being

Natural Person

Profane & Sacred Secular & Spiritualfictively separated

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NEED FOR A GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE TO GOVERN HUMAN

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ENRONWORLDCOM

SUB-PRIME,BANKS

MADOFF,SATYAM

LIMITATIONS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

HOW MANY MORE?

AND MORE SOXs!!!

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TOWARDS THE END STATE

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INTEGRITY REVISITED

• Words emanate meaning

• Etymology – Integrity from Latin integritas integer, whole number, being whole being one – AL TAWHID

• Integrity is a state, but not an end-state

• To actuator/actualizer

• Originally only be applied to human beings

• Bobby Jones

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CORPORATE vs. HUMAN INTEGRITY

DESCRIPTIVES

CORPORATE INTEGRITY

HUMAN INTEGRITY

Governance Rules & Compliance

Adab & Values

Source Legal Innate

Methodology Procedural Emergent

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BENCHMARKING INTEGRITY

• What is legal NEED NOT be moral

• What is moral is legal

• INTEGRITY – IS IT LAW OR BEYOND LAW?

• Conformance or Beyond Conformance?

• Rising beyond the self: Rectification of character

– getting rid of bad attributes (Murata & Chittick, 1994)

• The HEART is the source of one’s integrity

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THE ESSENCE OF COMPLIANCE- & VALUES-BASED

COMPLIANCE-BASED VALUES-BASED

• Divorced from values & ethics i.e. THE SPIRIT

• What is not prohibited is allowed. Attention is NOT on doing what is right but on NOT DOING what is wrong, NOT on doing one’s best but on NOT DOING one’s worst

• IS about values & ethics

• Encourages NOT to do ethical minimum but to DO ethical maximum

Rules DO NOT inspire, Values DO

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Human & Perception Devices

● Born with three devices of sense perception, intellection & contemplation

● Islamic teachings:● They have hearts, yet they do not

comprehend; they have eyes, yet they do not see; they have ears, yet they do not hear

● There are signs on the horizon & within themselves

● Are we limited to sense perception only?● Sufism – The Spiritual HEART of Islam

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HEART

HEART

PHYSICAL SENSES & THE MIND

WOMB BABIES TO TODDLERS

OLD AGE

FACULTY/DEVICE

ADULTHOOD

HEART

HEART

The Heart has its Reasons which Reasons knows not – Pascal

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Modes of Knowing

Three Modes of Knowing

Born with coherence ability, we repressed

Cultural conditioning

emphasizes bodily senses over non-sense perception

Scientists demonstrate children

of 4 to 5 years old experience non-sense perception

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• Is about the heart• Is about BEING what you are, BEING HUMAN - doing is a consequential to being

• Is about balancing the oneness - balancing along the continuum of obligation to corporation, obligation to people & obligation to universe

• Is about living the spirituality, the interconnectedness

LEADERSHIP

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MESSAGE TO FUTURE BUSINESS LEADERS

Life is a macrocosm of business - ONENESS

This business called LIFE model for business

BE HUMAN:

Use of the right devices in decision making process (HEART to temper the intellect & physical senses)

Move towards disclosure

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Anything to be manifested must be caused from inside

Inner-directed rather than outer Adab & ihsan Leadership is about making decision Do not take up leadership role unless accept

the responsibility & accountability with it Accountanbility Journey inward Qalb, Sir, Xin (heart & Mind), Xing(nature)

HeartMath - science

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Human Governance

Building High Performance DirectorsModule III

22 October 2008

Aziuddin AhmadProfessor

Graduate School of ManagementUniversity Putra Malaysia

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Discussion Points – Vertical Dimensions

• Words Emanate Meaning – Quran in Words

• Governance – Muadh ibn Jabal

• Islam, Iman & Ihsan – Hadith of Jibril

• Objective/Purpose in Life – Quran (51:56)

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Words Emanate Meaning

• Go back in origin – HablumminaAllah & Hablumminannas

• Turn to history to dissect real ontological meaning

• Spirituality/Divinity NOT secularized/desacralized

• Kosmos NOT cosmos

• Natural person NOT legal/artificial person

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Human Governance – A Primer

• Essentially an internal mechanism to guide behaviour

• Interior-out values-based conviction, spirit NOT letter

• What does it mean to be human?

• Inner-knowing for core-soul in human, locomotive-body

• New sciences now aligning with ancient teachings

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Ihsan – Virtue, Perfection, Excellence

• Third dimension of Islam

• Life is a series of dilemmas

• Ihsan is Governance

• Story of Muadh ibn Jabal

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Objective/Purpose in Life

• The spiritual is what makes human, human

• Human’s drive is towards inspiration, meaning, purpose

• Not to satisfy self interest – service beyond the self

• Ad Dhariyat Quran (51:56)

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Compliance- & Values-Based

CB approach is divorced from values and ethics i.e. THE SPIRIT

CB system, what is not prohibited is allowed. Attention is NOT on doing what is right but on NOT DOING what is wrong, NOT on doing one’s best but on NOT DOING one’s worst

VB encourages NOT to do ethical minimum but to DO ethical maximum

Rules DO NOT inspire. Values DO

Source: Institute of HeartMath

HEART EM Field

Source: Institute of HeartMath

HEART Neurons

Left Image:The light blue thin structures in the image are

multiple axons coursing between and connecting the

ganglia.

Source: Institute of HeartMath

An expanded view of the ganglia shown in the

rectangular box in the image on the left.

This drawing shows the location and distribution of intrinsic cardiac ganglia. Note how they are distributed particularly around

the orifices of major vessels.

Source: Institute of HeartMath

An afferent neuron is one that sends information to another neuron. These sensory neurons detect the local mechanical and biochemical changes that occur in cardiac tissue. They

send this information to the rest of the intrinsic cardiac nervous systems and in many cases to the brain.

Source: Institute of HeartMath

Christianity

Role model