There’s a quote attributed to the teachings of Atiśa Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna, known generally as Atisa, one of the reformers of Buddhism from around 1000AD. It goes; “The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.” I’ve not heard it said much recently,… Continue reading
When exploring the uniqueness of a particular job or assignment, HR professionals often break it down into the knowledge, skills and attitudes thought necessary to fulfill it. In a recent article based on a paper I gave at the at… Continue reading
A long time ago, I was asked to give a talk at a leadership conference on the theme of ‘Developing Gravitas‘. To accompany most of my talks, rather than hand out copies of any slides that I use (which I… Continue reading
In order to network effectively we need to be able to both empathize with others and to receive human kindness from them. People of power often struggle to do either but once they can they are able to exceed even… Continue reading
Social media sites are just as prone to unconscious processes as physical environments. Indeed, you could put forward an argument that they are more so, as many clues used to test out (and refute) our hypotheses about others are either… Continue reading
With apologies to Sy Oliver, Fun Boy Three and Bananarama, this morning’s shock news is that Foreign Office staff, keen to make the Pope’s visit to the UK a success brainstormed such ideas as… Launch a “Benedict” brand of condoms… Continue reading
One of the adjacent villages to our own is trying to raise funds for a new village hall. To do so they have broken free from the usual gamut of bring-and-buy and summer fetes and instead for the last year… Continue reading
There’s a raft of confusion about the role and work of chaplains in ‘corporate’ settings. In reality, while there are some common threads, every situation is different. The North Texas Star Telegram newspaper this weekend, carried an article about the… Continue reading
Bentley Professors Bring Spirituality and Meditative Practices Into Business Education An American college, Bentley College, just outside Boston MA, has been awarded a grant to develop a programme to re-educate their management educators. The plan is for them to be… Continue reading
What does it mean to be ‘human’? One definition of man reads: ‘an integrated unity of the biological, the organismic and the personal, the natural and the social, the inherited and what he acquires during his life….’Being human is simple,… Continue reading
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