| Geshe Michael Roach is a Princeton graduate | | | | Successful business people have the resources |
| and a Buddhist monk. After graduation, he | | | | to do more good in the world than those |
| spent seven years studying the wisdom of | | | | people without the same resources do. In |
| Tibetan Buddhism. At the suggestion of his | | | | addition, the very people who are attracted |
| teacher, he joined a fledgling diamond | | | | to business are the same people who have the |
| business in New York to test his ideals in | | | | strength to grasp and carry out the deeper |
| real life. He stayed with the business as a | | | | practices of the spirit. |
| member of the core management team for | | | | |
| seventeen years. | | | | Money should be made honestly and with |
| | | | absolute integrity. How we make money matters |
| The company grew from a start-up with two | | | | more than anything else does. It determines |
| owners and two employees to $100 million in | | | | our ability to keep making money as nobody |
| sales and five hundred employees in offices | | | | can indefinitely run a business built on |
| around the world. The Diamond Cutter: The | | | | dishonesty or deception. It also |
| Buddha on Strategies for Managing Your | | | | significantly affects our ability to enjoy |
| Business and Your Life tells the story of how | | | | the money we make. |
| Geshe Michael Roach built the diamond | | | | |
| division of this company, using principles | | | | Nothing is good or bad in and of itself; |
| culled from ancient Tibetan Buddhism as the | | | | everything has a hidden potential. This is |
| driving force behind his decision making. | | | | what the Buddhists call emptiness. What is |
| | | | bad news for you may be good news for someone |
| Drawing on lessons he learned in the diamond | | | | else, and vice versa. We must not leap to |
| business and years in Buddhist monasteries, | | | | conclusions about events, but must stop to |
| Roach shows how taking care of others is the | | | | consider what potential they really have for |
| ultimate path to taking care of oneself, | | | | us. Even competitors can be seen as fairy |
| even--especially--in business. As he puts it, | | | | godmothers challenging us to find the correct |
| you have to engage in "mental gardening," | | | | path to greater accomplishment. It is a |
| which means doing certain practical things | | | | matter of perception. With the right state of |
| that will form new habits that will create an | | | | mind, we can turn our problems into |
| ideal reality for you. If this sounds a | | | | opportunities. |
| little outrageous, his very precise | | | | |
| instructions are down to earth and address | | | | We should look ahead to the inevitable end of |
| numerous specific issues common to the | | | | our days in business, and put ourselves in a |
| business/management world. Through this | | | | position where we can honestly say our years |
| practice, you will become a considerate, | | | | in business had some meaning. The idea here |
| generous, introspective, creative person of | | | | is to anticipate our future, and move in a |
| immense integrity, and that will be the key | | | | direction that will allow us to look back on |
| to your wealth... A | | | | our past with total joy and satisfaction. |
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| Some of the many insights in The Diamond | | | | The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Strategies |
| Cutter are as follows: | | | | for Managing Your Business and Your Life by |
| | | | Geshe Michael Roach (Author) |
| A business should be successful; it should | | | | |
| make money. There is no conflict between | | | | List Price: $23. |
| spirituality and success in business. | | | | |