The Dalai Lama's Advice to Workforce Managers August 04, 2009
Wondering what the Dalai Lama would think of your last leadership retreat or that last ugly board meeting when you thought someone was bound to end up with a glass of water thrown in his face?
You no longer need to guess in the dark about that. In "The Leader's Way: The Art of Making the Right Decisions in our Careers, Our Companies, and the World at Large," His Holiness The Dalai Lama and Laurens Van Den Muyzenberg pass along the Dalai Lama's insights to your executives.
"This book examines capitalism and Buddhism in a fascinating way," says Prof. C.O. Herkstroter, former CEO of Shell and Chairman of the Board of ING. "Everybody in business who is seriously interested in responsible entrepreneurship will recognize the issues. The book adds a valuable dimension to the values and ethical standards that form the basis for responsible leadership in business."
"I feel we all should have a sincere concern and responsibility for how the global economy operates, and an interest in the role of businesses in shaping our interconnectedness," says The Dalai Lama. "I have come to understand how difficult it can be for business people to make the right decisions. My aim in this book is to enable readers and leaders to reduce suffering and increase satisfaction with life as a whole by helping them to understand more clearly what happens in their minds and the minds of others. As a consequence, this book will help leaders everywhere make good decisions that will generate a better quality of life for themselves, their organizations, and everyone else affected by those decisions."
The Dalai Lama aims to offer practical tools and advice on how to lead, and more specifically, how to make what he considers to be the right decisions, in the 21st century business world, including:
• The Six Perfections as they apply to leadership.
• How to combine the right view with the right conduct.
• Disciplined practice designed to work for modern business people.
• The importance of meditation (and simple techniques for busy leaders).
• The Buddhist method for making calm and collected decisions.
• The role of an organization. The Dalai Lama asks whether the best role of businesses today is to create profit, jobs, or happiness?
• How to become wealthy in what the Dalai Lama sees as the right way.
• How to lead in an organization in an interconnected world.
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