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“A great sense of commitment builds a hardworking spirit.”

“To succeed, you must adopt a mindset that is open to exploration and continually searches for (unmet) customer needs and contextual changes in the business, technology, regulatory, and competitive landscape”

“Fifteen years ago, a business manager from the United States came to Plum Village to visit me. His conscience was troubled because he was the head of a firm that designed atomic bombs. I listened as he expressed his concerns. I knew if I advised him to quit his job, another person would only replace him. If he were to quit, he might help himself, but he would not help his company, society, or country. I urged him to remain the director of his firm, to bring mindfulness into his daily work, and to use his position to communicate his concerns and doubts about the production of atomic bombs. In the Sutra on Happiness, the Buddha says it is great fortune to have an occupation that allows us to be happy, to help others, and to generate compassion and understanding in this world. Those in the helping professions have occupations that give them this wonderful opportunity. Yet many social workers, physicians, and therapists work in a way that does not cultivate their compassion, instead doing their job only to earn money. If the bomb designer practises and does his work with mindfulness, his job can still nourish his compassion and in some way allow him to help others. He can still influence his government and fellow citizens by bringing greater awareness to the situation. He can give the whole nation an opportunity to question the necessity of bomb production. Many people who are wealthy, powerful, and important in business, politics, and entertainment are not happy. They are seeking empty things - wealth, fame, power, sex - and in the process they are destroying themselves and those around them. In Plum Village, we have organised retreats for businesspeople. We see that they have many problems and suffer just as others do, sometimes even more. We see that their wealth allows them to live in comfortable conditions, yet they still suffer a great deal. Some businesspeople, even those who have persuaded themselves that their work is very important, feel empty in their occupation. They provide employment to many people in their factories, newspapers, insurance firms, and supermarket chains, yet their financial success is an empty happiness because it is not motivated by understanding or compassion. Caught up in their small world of profit and loss, they are unaware of the suffering and poverty in the world. When we are not int ouch with this larger reality, we will lack the compassion we need to nourish and guide us to happiness. Once you begin to realise your interconnectedness with others, your interbeing, you begin to see how your actions affect you and all other life. You begin to question your way of living, to look with new eyes at the quality of your relationships and the way you work. You begin to see, 'I have to earn a living, yes, but I want to earn a living mindfully. I want to try to select a vocation not harmful to others and to the natural world, one that does not misuse resources.' Entire companies can also adopt this way of thinking. Companies have the right to pursue economic growth, but not at the expense of other life. They should respect the life and integrity of people, animals, plants and minerals. Do not invest your time or money in companies that deprive others of their lives, that operate in a way that exploits people or animals, and destroys nature. Businesspeople who visit Plum Village often find that getting in touch with the suffering of others and cultivating understanding brings them happiness. They practise like Anathapindika, a successful businessman who lived at the time of the Buddha, who with the practise of mindfulness throughout his life did everything he could to help the poor and sick people in his homeland.”

“When faced with difficult decisions, painstakingly analyze the situation. Do your homework and be careful not to understate or overstate the impact of pertinent conditions. This includes researching possible consequences and deciding if the department, division, and company can live with them.”

“The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?”

“Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.”

“True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.”

“Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.”

“Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.”

“Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a Better place, not a worse one.”

“Success for Managers means: I want to be in healthy relationships. I want a real connection with people I spend so much time with.”

“Your values are your essence: an undistorted mirror showing you at your pure, attractive best.”

“Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.”

“Let’s get right on top of the bottom line: You must live your personal values at work.”

“Management controls performance in people because it impacts skills; it’s a matter of monitoring, analyzing and directing.”

“Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; it’s a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.”

“Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.”

“Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.”

“When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.”

“When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.”

“Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.”

“This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.”

“Hard-core results come from igniting the massive power of emotional commitment. Are your people committed?”

“Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?”

“The heart of a company’s performance is hardwired to the hearts of its managers.”

“The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.”

“To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.”

“Leaders are people who know exactly who they are. They know exactly where they want to go. They’re hell-bent on getting there.”

“Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.”

“Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.”

“Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to give it.”

“Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.”

“A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.”

“What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting. What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.”

“Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.”

“You can’t sell it outside if you can’t sell it inside.”

“The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.”

“When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.”

“The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.”

“Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.”

“What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.”