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1 online resource (193 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction: Putting Buddha to Work; PART I: Becoming a Mindful Worker; Choosing Mindful Work: Creating Right Livelihood; Advantages of mindful work; Choosing the right career or job; Becoming a great employee; Self-esteem; Dealing with distractions; Practical Enlightenment: Chop Wood, Carry Water; Beginner's mind; Establishing priorities; Time management; Procrastination; Too much e-mail; Getting lost in cyberspace; Selling without selling out; Really distasteful jobs; Quality of Work Life: The Middle Way at Work; When smart people do dumb things; Discouragement |
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Rumors and gossipThe company you keep; Achieving work/life balance; The cost and benefits of integrity and wisdom; Being Successful: How Do You Define Success?; Achieving goals; Multitasking; Finding the "right" answer to a problem; Admitting mistakes; Getting promoted; Celebrating accomplishments; Happiness vis-à-vis success; Money and Happiness: What's the Connection?; "The root of all evil"; Personal wealth; Creating a long-term spending plan; Greed; Getting rich; Financial setbacks and losses; Financial hardship; Planning for retirement |
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Dealing with Change: Riding the Waves of ImpermanenceResistance to change; Anxiety, fear, and stress; Losing your job; Changing careers; Finding new work; Taking care of yourself in difficult times; PART II: Cultivating Mindful Work Relationships; Working with Others: Unity in Diversity; Getting along with others; The golden rule; Influencing others; Doing something extra for others; Double standards between ourselves and others; Work spouses; The importance of listening; Receiving negative feedback; Teaching or training a coworker; Criticizing someone; Encouraging personal accountability |
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Helping others deal with changeDealing with Difficult People: Seeing All Beings as the Buddha; Dealing with jerks; Coworkers who lie; Handling people pleasers; Being bad-mouthed; Anger; Adulterous affairs at work; Whiners and negative people; Conflict with a teammate; Customers--Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Customer Service as Bodhisattva Activity; The importance of customer service; Encouragement for customer service people; Handling an angry customer; Bad customer service; Public relations; PART III: Creating a Mindful Workplace; Leadership and Bosses: Lead, Follow, or Get Off the Path |
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True leadershipIdentifying and selecting good leaders; Becoming a great employer or boss; Bosses who surround themselves with "yes" men; Tough, demanding bosses; Executive egos; Power struggles; Terrible bosses; The Big Issues: Beyond the Bottom Line; Making a proflt; Bottom-line thinking vs. Buddha-mind thinking; Writing a mission statement; Investing in the future; Developing a learning organization; Encouraging creativity and innovation; Corporate responsibility; Going green; Work Practices and Processes: Practice Is Awakening; Short-term versus long-term thinking; Designing work processes |
| 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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Technology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Business -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
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Interpersonal relations -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
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Buddhism.
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Buddhism.
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RELIGION -- Buddhism -- General.
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RELIGION -- Buddhism -- General (see also PHILOSOPHY -- Buddhist)
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Buddhism
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Business -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism
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Interpersonal relations -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gallagher, BJ
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| ISBN |
9781609942939 |
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1609942930 |
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9781609942946 |
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1609942949 |
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