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THE SENTIENT HEART: LEADERS IN LEADERSHIP ROLE

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

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THE SENTIENT HEART: LEADERS IN LEADERSHIP ROLE

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  1. 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

  2. LEADERSHIP GOVERNANCE FITRAH IHSAN ADAB ONENESS BEYOND COMPLIANCE DISCLOSURE

  3. STEWARD LEADER?

  4. THE UNIVERSE – OF ONENESS • EVIDENCE IN SCIENCE – QUANTUM PHYSICS • TRADITIONS OF THE MYSTICS

  5. 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

  6. THE UNIVERSE & HUMAN MIND/BRAINUNIVERSE 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?

  7. THE NEED TO BRING BACK THE SACREDNESS OF HUMAN BEING Profane & Sacred Secular & Spiritual fictively separated Secular Being Natural Person Artificial Person

  8. NEED FOR A GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE TO GOVERN HUMAN

  9. LIMITATIONS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE HOW MANY MORE? WORLDCOM ENRON STRA TEG I ES AND MORE SOXs!!! MADOFF, SATYAM SUB-PRIME, BANKS

  10. TOWARDS THE END STATE DISCLOSURE

  11. 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

  12. CORPORATE vs. HUMAN INTEGRITY

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. FACULTY/DEVICE BABIES TO TODDLERS ADULTHOOD OLD AGE WOMB PHYSICAL SENSES & THE MIND HEART HEART HEART HEART The Heart has its Reasons which Reasons knows not – Pascal 16

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. Human Governance Building High Performance Directors Module III 22 October 2008 Aziuddin Ahmad Professor Graduate School of Management University Putra Malaysia 22

  22. 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) 23

  23. 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 24

  24. 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 25

  25. Ihsan – Virtue, Perfection, Excellence • Third dimension of Islam • Life is a series of dilemmas • Ihsan is Governance • Story of Muadh ibn Jabal 26

  26. 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) 27

  27. 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 28 28

  28. Source: Institute of HeartMath

  29. HEART EM Field Source: Institute of HeartMath

  30. HEART Neurons Left Image:The 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

  31. 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

  32. 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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