That is the question asked by Nancy Spears in her latest business book, Buddha: 9 to 5: The Eightfold Path to Enlightening Your Workplace and Improving Your Bottom Line
Spears overlays ancient teachings upon today's corporate environments providing a road map for healthy change which is people, profit and ethics centric - all at the same time. She brings deeper meaning to the classic terms, "mission" and "vision." Through a series of self-coaching exercises, she points the reader toward accountability, discipline in communication, passion and patience at work. Short case studies populate the book both from the author's own professional experience as well as popular media. While educating on Buddhist principles of thought, each chapter is organized in business like fashion into strategies, tactics, and operations.
I love the book, like most of those recommended by my good friend Nicki Marcellino at Prudential California Realty. The company has their entire management staff reading the book! Spears and I are on the same page here. You can read my take on business and the eightfold path on my old blog, Thoughts on Leadership over at blogger.com. What do you think?
Enjoy,
Lora
Lora Banks, CPCC
