A blog devoted to the book Zen & Creative Management by Albert Low. By blogging about this author’s work, my hope is to generate creative ideas about bringing spirit into the workplace.
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 …
Modern capitalism is absolutely irreligious without internal union, without much public spirit, often, though not always, a mere congeries of possessors and pursuers. Maynard Keynes Economist Are we confronted with a tragic, insolvable dilemma? Must we produce a sick people in order to have a healthy economy, or can we use our material resources, our …
Chapter 1: Shareholder, Employee, Customer: The Basic Triad A company is a multidimensional system capable of growth, expansion, and self-regulation. A system can be defined as a set of independent but mutually related elements. The different jobs or functions in a company are the “independent elements”; each has its own reason for being; each is …
The work situation is a creation that has great psychological value. Through work, we are able to escape the effects of the dilemma (mental work that creates tension – some good, some bad) by projecting it into the work situation. In a well organized situation the dilemma is, as it were, caged, and workers are …