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