The Man Who Never Left You Guessing

A business article crossed my desk recently. Its point was simple: companies lose money not from bad markets but from bad talking. Someone writes “let’s touch base soon,” nobody knows what soon means, and a week evaporates. The writer called poor communication a hidden tax.

I read it and thought: the cure was demonstrated fourteen centuries ago by a man whose society called him al-Amin, the trustworthy, before it called him anything else.