White Collar Zen

Using Zen Principles To Overcome Obstacles And Achieve Your Career Goals

by Steven Heine

Oxford UP, 2005

ISBN: 9780195160031
Pages: 208

Category: Leadership & Management

In this summary you will learn

• How to apply Zen techniques to business scenarios
• How to practice "elevation, purification and activation" so you can bounce back from setbacks
• How to solve conflicts by having "Zen Encounters," not confrontations

Why you should read White Collar Zen

Building on Buddhist parables and using sources as diverse as St. Augustine and Alice in Wonderland, author Steven Heine offers a little book with big ideas, such as applying the Zen values of detachment and resilience to workplace dynamics. He tells stories to illustrate intricate, thoughtful ways to assess and react to various business scenarios and disputes. Then, with a relatively low dose of philosophical double-speak and, perhaps, a few too many oblique Eastern-sounding aphorisms, he encourages you to take the high ground. getAbstract.com recommends this illuminating guide to those of a philosophical or spiritual bent. Heine’s knowledgeable explanation of the practical application of Zen ideas in business will help you remain philosophical in the face of workplace triumphs, puzzles or setbacks. While it is hard to see the Buddha inside a bull-headed rival, it may help to try.

About the Author

Steven Heine is an expert on Zen Buddhism. He teaches religious studies and history at Miami’s Florida International University, where he is Director of Asian Studies. He holds workshops on adapting Zen values to business. He also wrote Buddhism in the Modern World and Opening a Mountain.

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