Just when you thought the world’s collective business bookcase could bear no more weight, along comes a publication worth shoving aside some of the standards for. Business Mojo: Achieving Success Through Mystical Exploration, steers blessedly clear of the usual relentlessly practical and tiresomely predictable preoccupations of business literature and concentrates, instead, on, shall we say, less conventional...
“Your face, my Thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters.” So said Lady Macbeth to her nervous husband on the eve of their planned regicide. And while the rest of us may not have king-murdering schemes written across our features, all of our faces are vast repositories of information about the personalities that lurk behind them. Personology is the science of reading faces, wherein a person’s...
Something there is about a list. Its orderly encapsulation of trailing bits of knowledge appeals to our inherent desire to categorize, to contain in neat packages the glut of the world’s information. If we can catalogue it, we can imagine it. To wit, the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People, a compilation recently published by an esoteric British publication called The Watkins Review, applies a sense of...
The world right now seems shrouded in such incredible murk it’s a wonder any of us can put a foot in front of the other. Every new day, every new Anderson Cooper utterance, every new splash of 72-point newsprint ink brings fresh reason for despair. The aftershocks of a devastating earthquake on a pristine strip of humanity in the South Pacific. The ravings of a despot in northern Africa intent on taking a country...
Students attending business school in India these days are learning as much about balanced budgets as they are about balanced psyches. As tapped-in educators in this part of the world acknowledge the emerging importance of spirituality in the corporate landscape, the pursuit of individuality and competition is giving over to one inspired by teamwork, cooperation and even service. In turn, the curricula in India’s...