Geshe Michael Roach - Karmic Management

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K armic Management is the long-awaited sequel to The Diamond Cutter, one of the worlds most popular business books, translated into more than fifteen languages and used by millions of people around the world. The Diamond Cutter told the story of one of the most successful companies in the history of New York City, and now Karmic Management tells you how you can do it yourself. The ancient, cutting-edge tips youll learn here have been used by:

Linda Kaplan Thaler, who built a billion-dollar advertising company and wrote the best-selling business book The Power of Nice: I owe much of the success of our company to the beliefs in The Diamond Cutter: we ensure our success when we plant imprints in our minds by ensuring the success of others.

Jill Murphy, a U.S. Army nurse serving in Iraq: I truly believe that the way the principles found in The Diamond Cutter have worked here in our unit could be a model for ending this war, and all war in the future: we have found that respect for others has dramatically reduced the violence.

William McMichael, an American Airlines pilot, who says, The cockpit used to be a tense place for me. I read and used The Diamond Cutter to stop prejudging my co-workers. Now my workplace has become dramatically more pleasant.

Lindsay Crouse, Academy Awardnominee actress: I bought this book, went to a caf, and read it cover to cover. Now I teach my courses for actors blended with this ancient wisdom of the East. Ive learned that promoting the careers of others makes my own career.

Muhammad Salam, who as a vice president at AC Holdings Capital found that The Diamond Cutter helped me discover more precisely how generosity towards the poor was producing my own success in the financial markets.

Russell Simmons, founder of the hip-hop movement, personal value $320 million, master of Diamond Cutter philosophy: I made a lot of people in the world rich. I made money by making other people money. Im rich from making others rich.

Eva Natanya, a professional theologian and a ballerina with the Royal Ballet of London: I vividly recall my first encounter with The Diamond Cutter. Once I had read it, I knew that I would never look at the world in the same way again; that I had found an unparalleled understanding of how the world actually works. I get through my own hard times by reaching out to fellow dancers in need.

Barney Jones, oil industry executive with Bentley Systems: It used to be that people at work didnt listen to me or my suggestions. A friend got me to read The Diamond Cutter, and by following its suggestion on avoiding gossip, I can say that the people around me are clearly influenced by what I have to say.

Now see yourself how Karmic Management can work for you!

T he boss has put together a project team of 12 people and made you project manager. The task: Get 100,000 units of the new product out the door, and sold through, within six monthsstarting today.

Or maybe your spouse has decided that the kitchen needs remodeling, and youve got one month to get it done.

Maybe youve just given yourself the job of losing five pounds by next Monday.

The 100,000 units could be books or pizzas or online software sales; it doesnt really matter. The point is that a specific project or task has to get done by a certain date. And youre responsible to see that it does get done, on time.

Lets face it, life is one long string of jobs. We need a way to get them done right; we need a surefire recipe for success. Financial success, surethats what were talking about. But at the same time we want to be a success as a person: a good person, a truly happy person, a person whos mentally and physically healthy. And if were doing things right, we also help all the people around usthe worldat the same time.

This little book gives you a completely new way of getting tasks and projects done. Its not something youve ever heard of before, but it worksit always works. Give it a try. All you need to invest is an hour of your time. We believe that if an idea is right, it can be explained in just a few wordsand then the rest is up to you.

Well be taking you through the Eight Rules of Karmic Management, proving to you how what goes around really does come around, in both your business and your life. We always start with a quote from one of the ancient books of wisdom that provide the source for Karmic Management. Although these books come from many different places, they all ended up in Tibet and for a thousand years helped build her priceless culture of wisdom. A radical new business approach that has survived a millenniums test of time.

And so first youll be seeing a pearl like this one, from the sixth-century Buddhist sage named Chandra Kirti:

ANCIENT WISDOM

The odds of success
In all things
Are 100%.

Then we go on to explain how the quote is going to help you get the 100,000 pizzas out on time and become the star of your company (or your home, which is sometimes harder).

We think that a book about how to be a success should be written by people who are already successful, and so every now and then youll see a little box like the one that follows, with a real-life story about how we ourselves used a KM rule to reach our own goals:

Real Life

LAMA CHRISTIE:

I was trained in the Eight Rules of Karmic Management from day one, at the Asian Classics Institute of New York. My dream was to help build a new kind of university, one that made a real difference in the world. And KM has done the job.

We started with no money at all, and our Diamond Mountain University is now up and running on a beautiful one-thousand-acre campus nestled in the foothills of southern Arizona. We have several hundred students from all five continents of the world, and our off-campus programs have been attended by thousands of people internationally. Karmic Management really did make my dream come true, at an age when most people are still just finishing up graduate school.

MICHAEL GORDON:

Im at the complete opposite end of the spectrum from Lama Christie. I had never even heard of Karmic Management. My dream was to build a high-scale hair salon in New York City, from scratch, without knowing a single person there. People in the business would call this Mission Impossible, but over the last 30 years the firm I foundedBumble & bumblehas grown into one of the worlds largest and most successful hair care and products companies, with over $50 million in annual sales.

I got into Karmic Management through the back door: once I learned about it I looked back on my business career and realized that it was exactly what Id been doing all along, and why weve been so successful. For me, KM has always been natural and intuitive: it just felt like the right thing to do. So now Im excited about seeing the Eight Rules actually laid out in a book that can be shared with other people, to make them successful too.