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Integrity, Trust and Kindness Through the Lens of Prophetic Leadership
Today’s leaders rarely lack competence or charisma. What they lack is character. A reflection on integrity, corruption, trust and kindness, contrasting common modern failures with the Prophetic model of leadership.
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Ihsan and Kodawari: Two Roads to Quality
A sharpened blade before slaughter in Islam, a whetstone before service in Japan. Two traditions arrive at the same small act, and the same idea of quality.
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Shukr and Kansha: Gratitude to the Creator and the Japanese Spirit of Thankfulness
Islam places gratitude, shukr (syukur), at the heart of faith. Japan has built gratitude into its daily language and manners. Looking at the two side by side shows how close they come, and where they point in different directions. Shukr in Islam Allah says: “If you are grateful, I will surely increase you” (Ibrahim 14:7),…
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What Makes a Leader “People-Oriented”? Islamic, Japanese, and Global Views Compared
Some leaders chase the numbers first and hope the people follow. Others start with the people, trusting that the numbers follow them. That second style is what management researchers call “people-oriented” leadership — and three very different traditions, Islamic, Japanese, and Western behavioral science, all arrive at roughly the same conclusion, just by different roads.…
