| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 176 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Becoming a mindful worker -- Choosing mindful work: creating right livelihood -- Practical enlightenment: chop wood, carry water -- Quality of work life : the middle way at work -- Being successful : how do you define success? -- Money and happiness : what's the connection? -- Dealing with change : riding the waves of impermanence -- Cultivating mindful work relationships -- Working with others : unity in diversity -- Dealing with difficult people : seeing all beings as the Buddha -- Customers : love 'em or lose 'em : customer service as Bodhisattva activity -- Creating a mindful workplace -- Leadership and bosses : lead, follow, or get off the path -- The big issues : beyond the bottom line -- Work practices and processes : practice is awakening -- The care and feeding of employees : your team as your sangha -- Solving people problems : there are no answers, pursue them lovingly -- Organizational change : everything changes, nothing remains without change -- Notes -- About the authors. |
| Summary |
Combining the talents of a professor of religion and an expert on workplace dynamics, this book continues the tradition begun by its bestselling predecessor, What Would Buddha Do (more than 30,000 copies sold), as yet another perfect tool for bringing bite-size chunks of Buddhist wisdom to give meaning to and resolve common conflicts found in everyday work. |
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Work -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
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Interpersonal relations -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
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Leadership -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
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Success -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
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Organizational change.
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Labor -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
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Travail -- Aspect religieux -- Bouddhisme. |
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Leadership -- Aspect religieux -- Bouddhisme. |
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Succès -- Aspect religieux -- Bouddhisme. |
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Changement organisationnel. |
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Labor -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism |
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Success -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism |
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Leadership -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism |
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Interpersonal relations -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism |
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Organizational change |
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Work -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism |
| Added Author |
Gallagher, B. J. (Barbara J.), 1949-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Metcalf, Franz. Being Buddha at work. 1st ed. San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ©2012 (DLC) 2011045762 |
| ISBN |
9781609942939 (e-book) |
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1609942930 (e-book) |
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(pbk.) |
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