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Karmic Management: What Goes Around Comes Around in Your Business and Your Life

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Can something be too simple? Yes, if it purports to tell the whole picture but leaves out important points. I do not think that is the case here. This book simplifies and makes plain a step-by-step process for success. I plan to give it a try. I know I already feel better just committing to put it in practice. I have always believed the tenants in this book, now I have a clear and specific way to apply them.

I enjoyed the book "Karmic Management". I needed the book to participate in a study group. The book was an easy read, the subject was clearly explained.

I would have preferred an unabridged audio book on CD. If anyone knows of a site that can be searched by "unabridged audio books on CD" I would love to know it. (I am not a expert computer person and am not interested in computer download books!!)

Well written, informative, interesting, and practicing karma management has helped me understand myself, others,and the world in its most simple and complex forms. Wish i had read this book 20 years ago.

Karmic Management is nothing short of a completely original New Model of Economy for the world.

New to us in the West and East stuck in the limited ideas of Capitalism, Socialism and Communism. This book - the ideas in it- melds all three perfectly integrating without losing or compromising in any way. The authors do not say this anywhere but it is what was immediately apparent to me and what I have been yearning for as long as I can remember myself looking at the economies of the world and wishing for a better way. It also brings together what is known as spirituality (ancient religion) and materialism without paradox.

It is clearly written and easy to follow. Not for the faint of heart as it requires a leap of faith.

I read it and started practicing it the very same day and began to see results the very next.

We can all relax and be grateful now, acquiring wealth in a responsible, dependable and open hearted way is at our fingertips.

Whatever your job--homemaker or corporate executive--this book gives you an easy-to-understand guide to creating a more successful and happier life for yourself and, as importantly, for others.

This book explains karma, "cause of the causes", in a simple, clear, and direct way. You can immediately put this information to use.

Bravo to the authors for such a beautifully written book!

If you want a direct route to success while being able to sleep soundly at night and still look your mother in the face and smile, this is the book to get.

I have read The Diamond Cutter previously also by Geshe Michael Roach and found it very useful. But I personally think this book goes a step further. It takes a different approach to the same topic. It gives a step by step approach to a sometimes hard to apply set of laws (Karma). As a student of Buddhism for many years I can safely say that this is Buddhism 101 but with a very straight apply it now without any messing guide built in.

I have also read the Tibetan Book of Yoga which gives a similarly direct approach to a very strong Yoga practice. This was also written by Geshe Michael Roach and Christie McNally.

So all in all great authors with a great way of simplifying a very deep subject, without leaving you needing more in order to apply it's principles.

If interested in uniting Western and Indo-Tibetan Buddhist views, I'd much rather recommend "The Art of Happiness" by the Dalai Lama, or almost anything by B. Alan Wallace, who's a master at bringing the two cultures together. This book had quite a few flaws to it. I would venture to guess that most positive reviews simply came from direct students of Roach, when 99% of the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist community doesn't take him very seriously. There's 2,500 years of books to choose from, and life is short. Don't waste your time on this one.

This book claims that karma is the underlying cause of all effects such that good deeds, thoughts and actions result in the same, and bad deeds, etc. result in the same, or basically the Eastern version of "what goes around comes around". As such, to succeed in business and in life, we need to strive for the success of others and eventually (guaranteed!) our success will come as well. I do believe there is some truth to this in general and falls into the same category as teachings like the Golden Rule or psychological principles like "you get what you expect". It's a risky proposition, however, to claim that always working for the success of others will always lead to your own success. (This seems like a fairly easy principle to test agains a test group that does not apply it.) The teaching is based on Tibetan Bhuddism, particularly the notion that the individual is inter-connected to all other beings and, as such, is really only helping themselves when they help others.

I definitely think it's an ideal to strive for; however, it can smack somewhat of The Secret principle of the Law of Attraction, where you bring into your life those things that you constantly think about so that everything that comes into your life is in some way a result of your own thinking. Clearly all the victims (and their families) of 9/11, the tsunami and any other major tragedy would beg to differ. The authors of this book give an analogous example to the Law of Attraction in a case study where a staffer named Frank is complaining and therefore, by the law of karma, his complaning must have been planted by a seed of your own complaining. All you need to do is stop complaining and that bad karma will be thwarted. Really? So what about the project (true story) where a love-triangle was getting in the way of success? Was that my fault because I was engaged in a love triangle myself (I wasn't) and therefore that bad karma will stop when I stop my own non-existing love-triangle? And what about those co-workers who have been complaining before the Karmic Manager arrived, or maybe even was born? And of course, there are the convenient loopholes in the teaching that explain why on the outside it may look like the karma theory is not working when it really is: The nasty manager who climbs up the corporate ladder? In his heart of hearts, he really has the success of all in mind; the nice guy who isn't getting the promotions and bonuses? Well, he's really not thinking about everyone else's succes, only his own; the bad breaks that come to you despite all your karma thinking? You naughty boy you planted bad karma seeds back in grade school, when you put a tack on the teacher's chair. It's this kind of nonsensical thinking that can turn potentially good advice (help others succeed and you will succeed yourself) into New Age trash. Take the good advice and throw out the trash.

And it's fun to see the authors apply their teachings in the last chapter where, after listing a bunch of free, good karma things you can get to pursue your degree in Karma Management, they offer a bunch of not free, and probably fairly expensive, courses and certifications, to get them some success.