• Leadership in Adversity: Lessons That Endure (Part 1)

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    – Learning from the Prophet ﷺ and from our own journeys through challenge

    THE PROPHET ﷺ AS THE HALLMARK OF LEADERSHIP

    I chose Leadership in Adversity as this week’s article because this year had me face four months of adversity, i.e. my sickness, before I got out of it. View video excerpt below from The Bypass Files:

    (If you can’t view the video above, click here.)

    Then I wanted to check how our Prophet ﷺ dealt with adversity.

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  • Rubah 10th anniversary

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    Happy 10th year anniversary, Rubah Associates! Alhamdulillah… May we bring benefit to the world. Aamiin. 🤲🏻

  • Reforming Strategy: Towards Faith-Conscious Knowledge and Practice

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    – Why Muslim leaders must unlearn defaults and generate autonomous frameworks of strategy

    UNDER ATTACK, OBVIOUS AND NOT SO

    The attack on humanity of late has me lost for extremely negative adjectives. We awaken and we don’t want to allow the way of the perpetrators to go on. We find in our ways, big or small to counter these madness with what should be absolute right.

    For both the blatant transgressions that are reported and streamed on our daily screens, and the “silent killers” that over the decades we allowed ourselves to be programmed with, we want to find and implement better ways.

    In Edition #1, I lamented on the silent killer of coloniality: the unseen continuation of colonial mindsets in leadership and strategy. Over our professional lifetime, colionality continues in the way we define “success,” “progress,” “business” and “strategy” today. Like a fish in water, we swim along not really aware we are in water.

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  • 10 only

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    Managed to ride 10km today, like last month. Slightly faster this time. On the way to 100km again. A long way!

    Skipping LEKAS Highway Ride 2025 this weekend. Next year!

  • “What’s in a name?”: Examining the leader’s identity guided by their name

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    – Finding purpose and inspiration in the names we carry

    MY NAME IS HASANNUDIN

    Not everybody knows the meaning of the name their parents gave them. How important is that?

    In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the expression “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by another name would smell as sweet” argues that it doesn’t matter.

    To me it didn’t really matter for a long time, until I dug into the meaning and gave it my heartfelt interpretation:

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  • Ops Blog Rescue

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    – Surviving a tech provider’s shutdown

    I’m on Day 2 of rescuing what I can of blog posts, their images, links, etc. before the immovable deadline (yeah, dead!) of 30 September 2025 when my blogging platform permanently shuts down.

    I have lamented this before (https://lnkd.in/g7N9gHBE) — I am enslaved to tech! Commenters suggest I turn the two decades of blogging into books, for immortality. Next year’s project! Insha Allah.

    Next weekend I will be migrating the rescued blog minutiae to another platform. Blogs will be back soon!

    Video of the rescue to-do’s below!

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  • Getting Things Deen: Faith-Conscious-izing GTD

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    – When GTD meets deen: unlearning secular patterns, striving for faith-conscious productivity

    PRODUCTIVITY BOTTOM-UP OR TOP-DOWN?

    David Allen’s GTD® (Getting Things Done®) methodology has been beneficial for me for two decades.

    GTD’s 5 Steps, with all the techniques and tools I’ve been using, have systematically helped me manage overwhelm and stress, truly, i.e. in cruising to try finish more than a hundred (!) to-do tasks at any one time (GTD calls them Next Actions) at the “runaway level.”

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  • Rewire, Refire, Renew: The HEART of Leadership

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    – From Setbacks to Sustainability Through Inner Mastery

    LEARNING FROM SUFFERING

    Leaders need to drive results, but how do they sustain? Without renewal, even the most talented leaders run out of clarity, resilience and purpose.

    I experienced this truth first-hand through my (urgh…, major!) bypass surgery earlier this year. What seemed like a setback became a framework for rethinking leadership. Out of that personal journey, I shaped the HEART Framework, a way to build resilience, patience and clarity through inner mastery, which I offer as also applicable in the organisational setting.

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  • In Search of Excellence: Ihsan or Itqan?

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    IN SEARCH OF THE RIGHT WORD

    From the 1970’s I have been reading a lot, and in 1982 I picked up the book In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman. It became a business classic that shaped management thinking for decades. “Excellence” became a benchmark for organizations seeking to outperform competitors and sustain growth.

    Forty years later I discovered the profound word that signifies an internal state for excellence, and the word is ihsan. The word takes on a spiritual lens. Beyond efficiency, KPIs, or customer satisfaction, ihsan asks: how do we bring beauty, sincerity, and God-consciousness into our work?

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