White collar Zen : using Zen principles to overcome obstacles and achieve your career goals / Steven Heine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heine, Steven, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management--Religious aspects--Buddhism.

Management.

Leadership--Religious aspects--Buddhism.

Leadership.

Business--Religious aspects--Buddhism.

Business.

Interpersonal relations--Religious aspects--Buddhism.

Interpersonal relations.

Organizational behavior--Religious aspects--Buddhism.

Organizational behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Using Zen principles to overcome obstacles and achieve your career goals

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It is said that in traditional Japan the samurai embraced Zen because it helped them to be fearless in adversity, to act quickly and decisively, and to keep focused on their ultimate goal. In White Collar Zen, Steven Heine shows how, by applying Zen principles in our working lives, we can achieve the same results for ourselves. Heine describes the way Zen embraces two different yet harmonious paths. The Way of the Hermit teaches detachment--the mental clarity you need to view your situation dispassionately and impartially, to perceive who is an ally and who is a competitor, to understand wha

Contents:

Game plan

Mountains are mountains: roots of everyday stress

Introduction: applying Zen

Zen and professional leadership

The power of Zen

Mountains are not mountains: transforming conflict into opportunity

Everybody must get foxed

The greater the doubt, the greater the enlightenment

Seeing the forest, but not missing the trees

Mountains are mountains, again: from structure to anti-structure

Returning to the marketplace

All's well that ends well

Coming from nowhere to somewhere

Glossary

Appendix: Koan translation ("Te-shan carrying his bundle").

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-028950-3

0-19-518432-7

1-280-83840-X

0-19-803626-4

1-4294-3827-4

OCLC:

476258298