Huge donation for an idea first time in Turkey
In Turkey, donations are generally given to schools or hospital buildings. It is customary to write the names of the donors at the top of the buildings.
However, this general trend was not obeyed recently in Turkey, when $1.5 million was donated to develop and spread the concept of âgovernanceâ in Turkey.
The founder of the Argüden Governance Academy, Yılmaz Argüden, said this was an important milestone in the âhistory of donorsâ because this donation was not given, as we are used to, to a physical venue, but rather to the development of intellectual capital.
One of the founders of the Turkish Society for Quality (KalDer), Argüden is the person who initiated the ânational quality movementâ in Turkey. With this movement spreading to thousands of companies and institutions and proving to be extremely successful, Turkey is one of the two countries that have received the most awards in Europe.
After quality, Argüden is focusing on âgovernance.â He has written a book in English on this subject titled âKeys to Governance â Strategic Leadership for Qualityâ (Palgrave Macmillan).
This concept is a bit abstract for many of us, but Argüden said in short it was a mechanism that determines how administrations should be audited and guided.
He set up the âArgüden Governance Academyâ in the beginning of the year. In a recent conversation he said, âTrust is the foundation of social development. Especially trust in institutions. Why is London a financial center and Amsterdam a commerce center? Because there is trust for institutions there. Those trusted societies and institutions attract financial or intellectual resources; they trigger development.â
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