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