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Politics, governance and authorityEducation
Summary
Stephen Covey, the American trainer whom Tareq al-Suwaidan cites as his teacher on motivation: invited to address a company's annual ceremony — at which fifty of its nine hundred and eighty employees had just been honoured — he asked its head: when you hired them, did you pick successes or failures? And if you picked successes, what happened to them while working with you that they now count as failures 1 2. See: Motivation.
People and things also explored
Experience versus service, and self-development· Motivation· Life management and choosing one's field· The quartets of making creatives· al-Attarine Madrasa, Fez· Ahl al-Diwan (those paid from the state register of soldiers and officers, and the rules of their conditions and distribution)· Ahl al-Hall wa al-Aqd (those who loose and bind: the men of power whose choice confirms the imam)· Ahl al-Mahalla (the people of a quarter, their imam, call to prayer, and their part in the oath and blood money where a body is found)
Sources
- Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Administrative Processus Abilities, episode 4, at 00:40:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
- Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Administrative Processus Abilities, episode 4, at 00:41:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Stephen Covey”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/stephen-covey/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-26.