Bai' Alwaraqah

Para ulama Jawa Timur sering membuat kagum para pendengarnya. Apa yang dikatakan para praktisi modern sebagai "out of box" justru sering dilaksanakan dan ditampilkan sebagai alternatif. Persoalannya kemudian itu menjadi kontroversial, itu urusan lain.

Efficiency vs socialization

A Muslim intelellectual once said that "It is easy for Muslim society to have many associations. A group of people who have resentments to their management might quit the organization and create their own assosciation. When this newly established association develops and  spreads over to the people, then a  group within the association who starts to have gruelties against its management will do the same thing as the founder did to their first organization. And this process will continue without anyone knowing until when."

Sumbit to Heaven

During last two weeks I have become a good listener to everyone who tell me their problem. The highest number of the complaints related to their present position in the job. I never know why people like to complain their concerns to me, not to Human Resource Department. May be because I am considered as "ustaz", and the ustaz can communicate to God  so their burden can be reduced via my communication ha..ha..

Had they known that I myself could only be promoted after being patient for 7 years in the position and having working hard for the duration without receiving good remark (sometimes just because the director doesn't like my criticism for their sharia non-compliace action), they might refused to talk to me. The only sentence I could say at the end of talk is always "submit it to heaven, because even we -who work in the best-managed financial center in this country- are promoted to higher rank by the way of like-dislike, and sometimes by sequnce of entering batch. Never think such good theories on human resources will work smoothly. Forget about stars you received during your bright years, it oftenly become decorating acessories in your filing sistem. 

Wallahu a'lam 

 

Guru Sa'duddin; Bendahara 24 Jam

Suaranya bersih dan lantang. Giginya rapih dan awet walaupun sudah berumur. Pakaiannya selalu necis, baik ketika menggunakan seragam safari maupun ketika bersarung dan berbaju koko. Ketika belum punya mobil, dia mengendarai vespa biru dengan kacamata hitam setianya. "Wuih,,,,kayak Marlon Brando cing" komentar seorang rekan yang melihat penampilannya ketika bervespa ria.

Financial Psycho

With all my experience in banking world there is question arising, why poeple in financial area, be it banking or any other institutions, tend to have a psychological problem. They tend to be authoritative, undemocratic, suspicious, and other negative attitudes. If these attitudes come as the result of financial practice and experience, than it is understandable, because financial practices are like military which should be executed safely and smoothly. But if they come from people who exercise the power of regulation and supervision of the financial industry then these are just a bureaucrate style, a worst kind of management in the world. Like a proverb says, power tends to corrupt and absolute power then corrupts absolutely.

People who sit in a certain position in financial industry will have emperor-like psychological condition. In other parts of the world they are worse. The greedy character, quoted at least by Stiglitz and Ormerod make them like having megalomania, big power. Those who are not in their way are considered as the foe. Their subordinates should be in place like those toys which can be played any time they want. They determine what are important for their subordinates eventhough those subordinates are brighter than their own bosses. This black side of management is really frightening and thrilling: stupid people lead the bright one just because they have more power and earlier recruited by the organization.

Wallahu A'lam


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