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I Do and I Understand: A New Model of Transformational Education
Fr. Francis Kline, besides being one of the most impressive leaders I have ever met, also happens to be a Julliard trained organist who, much to the disappointment of the New York Times, at the age of 21 gave up a lucrative recording contract and certain stardom to enter a Trappist monastery. I was thrilled when [...]
Discipline and Transformation
August, You said: “When a thirsty man drinks he transforms his condition. When a poor man hits the lottery he transforms his circumstances. And when Mr. Scrooge wakes up on Christmas morning an utterly new man he has experienced a transformation of being.” Do you think most people really seek a transformation of being – [...]
Beyond Garden Variety Profit
Louis R. Mobley, my mentor and founder of the IBM Executive School, said that in any “free exchange” – economic or not – both parties should walk away with [...]
Is Spirituality Compatible With Business?
A friend asked me how he could make sure his second marriage worked after failing at his first. I told him that the reason why his first marriage failed is because [...]
Want an Unpaid Workforce? Earn It.
Why do the monks have an unpaid workforce in the first place? Because they inspire people to work for room and board. The unpaid workforce is not a “given,” it is [...]
What does the monastic process of transformation have to do with business?
What people essentially want is transformation. Change of heart is what people go to the monastery looking for and what the monastic experience provides.
