The Diamond Cutter: Buddhist Sucess Model

Written by Janet Ilacqua


Geshe Michael Roach is a Princeton graduate and a Buddhist monk. After graduation, he spent seven years studyingrepparttar wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism. Atrepparttar 103885 suggestion of his teacher, he joined a fledgling diamond business in New York to test his ideals in real life. He stayed withrepparttar 103886 business as a member ofrepparttar 103887 core management team for seventeen years. The company grew from a start-up with two owners and two employees to $100 million in sales and five hundred employees in offices aroundrepparttar 103888 world. The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Strategies for Managing Your Business and Your Life tellsrepparttar 103889 story of how Geshe Michael Roach builtrepparttar 103890 diamond division of this company, using principles culled from ancient Tibetan Buddhism asrepparttar 103891 driving force behind his decision making. Drawing on lessons he learned inrepparttar 103892 diamond business and years in Buddhist monasteries, Roach shows how taking care of others isrepparttar 103893 ultimate path to taking care of oneself, even--especially--in business. As he puts it, you have to engage in "mental gardening," which means doing certain practical things that will form new habits that will create an ideal reality for you. If this sounds a little outrageous, his very precise instructions are down to earth and address numerous specific issues common torepparttar 103894 business/management world. Through this practice, you will become a considerate, generous, introspective, creative person of immense integrity, and that will berepparttar 103895 key to your wealth... A

Some ofrepparttar 103896 many insights in The Diamond Cutter are as follows:

A business should be successful; it should make money. There is no conflict between spirituality and success in business. Successful business people haverepparttar 103897 resources to do more good inrepparttar 103898 world than those people withoutrepparttar 103899 same resources do. In addition,repparttar 103900 very people who are attracted to business arerepparttar 103901 same people who haverepparttar 103902 strength to grasp and carry outrepparttar 103903 deeper practices ofrepparttar 103904 spirit.

Silicon Valley: a parable

Written by Janet K. Ilacqua


We have all heard aboutrepparttar “Silicon Valley” miracle. Not long ago, Silicon Valley found itself atrepparttar 103884 centre ofrepparttar 103885 world, a job- and money-making machine fueled byrepparttar 103886 popularity ofrepparttar 103887 Internet and technological innovation. Those days are a distant memory now. Now,repparttar 103888 Center ofrepparttar 103889 World has become a technological Rust Belt. The streets, once throbbing with energy, are empty and quiet. Empty new buildings stand like bleached mausoleums inrepparttar 103890 sun with big, indiscreet "AVAILABLE" signs slapped on them. A full 20% ofrepparttar 103891 valley’s jobs have been lost since March 2001 and hi-tech jobs continued to be lost as companies downsize or outsource jobs to Asia. No one inrepparttar 103892 Valley can figure what to do to bring backrepparttar 103893 golden era. However, most people not local torepparttar 103894 area are unaware ofrepparttar 103895 previous history of this area. The past 200 years have been tragic one of genocide, environmental destruction, greed, trickery, and exploitation. In 1776, atrepparttar 103896 time of their first contact withrepparttar 103897 Spanish explorers originally who were looking for gold, Santa Clara Valley was an untouched Eden with maybe 10,000 Ohlone Indians. By 1830,repparttar 103898 peaceful, basket-weaving peoples who had been living there for over 10,000 years had completely disappeared, killed off by epidemics andrepparttar 103899 mission system. In 1848,repparttar 103900 land, originally part of Mexico, became part of United States. Americans, many of whom were failed gold-seekers fromrepparttar 103901 mother lode, started to pour in and acquired Mexican cattle ranches, often through force and trickery. The rich alluvial soil—some ofrepparttar 103902 best inrepparttar 103903 world-- proved ideal for orchards. The Valley duringrepparttar 103904 spring was a canopy of white blossoms—“The Valley of Heart’s Delight.” An orchard of another type grew aroundrepparttar 103905 seeds planted by William Hewlett, David Packard, Fred Terman, and other researchers at Stanford University. Today, Hewlett-Packard is one ofrepparttar 103906 world's largest producers of computers and electronic measuring devices and equipment. The names ofrepparttar 103907 branches ofrepparttar 103908 tree are familiar: Stanford Industrial Park, Varian, Apple Computers, Intel, Yahoo, CISCO, Netscape, etc. Creativity leads to innovation, and innovation leads to prosperity. Prosperity attracts restless, bright, often unscrupulous people, with often troubled and unhappy pasts, from all parts ofrepparttar 103909 world. The old-time farmers sell their farms off for a king’s ransom and move. The orchards were bulldozed to make room for subdivisions and industrial parks.

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