EMPOWERING INTEGRITY

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THE SENTIENT HEART LEADERS IN LEADERSHIP ROLE
ORANGE BOOK CROSS ASSIGNMENT DAY
6th JULY 2009
AZIUDDIN AHMAD, PhD Professor of Risk
Management THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF
MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA
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LEADERSHIP
GOVERNANCE
FITRAH IHSAN ADAB
ONENESS
BEYOND COMPLIANCE
DISCLOSURE
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STEWARD LEADER?
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THE UNIVERSE OF ONENESS

• EVIDENCE IN SCIENCE QUANTUM PHYSICS
• TRADITIONS OF THE MYSTICS

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THE LENS OF SCIENCE
CARTESIAN-NEWTONIAN
EINSTEINIAN
OLD LENS
NEW LENS

• Clockwork (blind watchmaker)
• No place for transcendence
• Predictability
• Objectivity
• Purposelessness

• 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
CONSCIOUSNESS MATERIAL NON-MATERIAL?
MATERIAL NON-MATERIAL
NO ONE-to-ONE CORRESPONDENCE
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE HUMAN?
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THE NEED TO BRING BACK THE SACREDNESS OF HUMAN
BEING
Profane Sacred Secular Spiritual fictively
separated
Secular Being
Natural Person
Artificial Person
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NEED FOR A GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE TO GOVERN HUMAN
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LIMITATIONS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
HOW MANY MORE?
WORLDCOM
ENRON
STRA TEG I ES
AND MORE SOXs!!!
MADOFF, SATYAM
SUB-PRIME, BANKS
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TOWARDS THE END STATE
DISCLOSURE
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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 ones 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 ones best but on NOT
  DOING ones 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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FACULTY/DEVICE
BABIES TO TODDLERS
OLD AGE
ADULTHOOD
WOMB
PHYSICAL SENSES THE MIND
HEART
HEART
HEART
HEART
The Heart has its Reasons which Reasons knows not
Pascal
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Modes of Knowing
Cultural conditioning emphasizes bodily senses
over non-sense perception
Three Modes of Knowing
Scientists demonstrate children of 4 to 5 years
old experience non-sense perception
Born with coherence ability, we repressed
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LEADERSHIP

• 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

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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 Directors Module III 22
October 2008
Aziuddin Ahmad Professor Graduate School of
Management University 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 (5156)

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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/desacralize
  d
• 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
• Humans drive is towards inspiration, meaning,
  purpose
• Not to satisfy self interest service beyond
  the self
• Ad Dhariyat Quran (5156)

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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 ones best
  but on NOT DOING ones worst
• VB encourages NOT to do ethical minimum but to DO
  ethical maximum
• Rules DO NOT inspire. Values DO

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Source Institute of HeartMath
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HEART EM Field
Source Institute of HeartMath
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HEART Neurons
Left ImageThe light blue thin structures in the
image are multiple axons coursing between and
connecting the ganglia.
An expanded view of the ganglia shown in the
rectangular box in the image on the left.
Source Institute of HeartMath
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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
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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
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Christianity
Role model