Foreword of Zen and Creative Management
I go in and out reading text from the book to adding my own comments. The image is of my own notes from summarizing this highly dense foreword. It is helping me make sense not only of the whole book but also how to present this in a limited timeline. From the Foreword: “I look …
February 12th, 2020 ~ This book has taken shape over several years and is offered with several aims in mind. First, it is hoped that some of what is suggested will strike a resonant chord in the minds of readers and give them direction for their own consideration of organizational issues. The life force that …
For example, instead of wastes being the very basis for new life and growth, they lie on one side–unusable, polluting. When people no longer fit the system, they are unemployed, poor, discarded. In nature there is interpenetration; each is a whole supporting and sustaining the whole. In technology there are only parts; everything is a …
“A full dilemma, moreover, as this book will show, has four horns, not just two. The societal dilemma also includes the need to control inflation, which still threatens the financial structure, and also free access to credit, which has become a principle feature of that structure. Each of these four is dependent on the others …
“I look at Zen not as a religion but as a way of thinking, and at scientific breakthrough–the joy of creating something–as a form of enlightenment.” Albert Low Author “Conflict is the very source of creation; thus, what is most to be feared by the company that wants its management to remain creative, is loss …