[BookReview] THE Leader's Way: Business, Buddhism and happiness in an interconnected world by His Holyiness The Dalai Lama and Laurens Van Den Muyzenberg

At first glace, business and religion seem to live in different world. But, in fact, both share the common purpose. They both seek happiness.  

The main idea of this book is to apply right view and right conduct to the free market world. The book consists of three parts. Part one focuses on a personal level. It presents the meaning of right view and right conduct that a leader should have, and instructs how one can train his/her mind in busy daily life. Part two moves on to what role leaders should play in an organization. Finally, Part three discusses the right role of the organization in our society.

This book is quite interesting. It does not focus on or aim at propagating Buddism. In fact, the authors recognize wealth as a crucial incentive in a free market. The book helps leaders understand why an organization should not look for wealth only, and why the organization should act responsibly. If the leaders can practice right view and right conduct, the world would be a better place to live.


What Do I Learn from This Book?

Right view is to think of others as well as yourself. Right conduct is to apply right view in every aspect of your life. Keep practice right view and right conduct, and you will gain more satisfaction in life.

Table of Contents

• PART I: LEADING YOURSELF
• Chapter One: Taking The Right View
• Chapter Two: Doing the Right Thing
• Chapter Three: Training the Mind
• PART II: LEADING YOUR ORGANIZATION
• Chapter Four: The Leaders Purpose
• Chapter Five: Creating Profit, Jobs or Happiness?
• Chapter Six: Doing Business Right
• PART III: LEADING IN AN INTERCONNECTED WORLD
• Chapter Seven: The Challenge of Globalization
• Chapter Eight: Entrepreneurship and Poverty
• Chapter Nine: The Responsible Free Market Economy

Book or Audiobooks?

Personally, I prefer audiobooks. It's fun, and I can listen when I'm doing something else. It also makes other activities (e.g., jogging) a lot more fun. For more detail about audiobooks, please read [this post].

There is one more reason that may encourage you to go for the audiobook version. You can get it now for FREE. Audible offers you a free trial for 14 days. Even if you get the book and cancel the subscription right away (so that you don't have to pay), you can keep the book. And, don't worry if you lost the audiobook file. Just log into audible.com. You can keep downloading the over and over again.