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Z.B.A.: Zen of Business Administration - How Zen Practice Can Transform Your Work And Your Life | 
 enlarge | Author: Marc Lesser
Publisher: New World Library
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 406907
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1577314697
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.1
EAN: 9781577314691
ASIN: 1577314697
Publication Date: January 21, 2005
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Product Description
Entrepreneur Marc Lesser built his company, Brush Dance, from a tiny recycled-paper venture operated out of his garage into a multimillion-dollar publisher of greeting cards and calendars. Armed with an MBA, this founder and CEO grappled with the usual challenges of running a company: meeting payroll and balancing cashflow, hiring and firing employees, and maintaining relationships with vendors and customers. Informing every decision was Lessers commitment to Zen practice. As an ordained Zen priest, he has practiced and studied Zen for thirty years. In Z.B.A. he follows the great spiritual tradition of teaching stories to beautifully describe the delicate path of living a working life as a spiritual practice.
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 missing the point March 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is an example of the approach of supposed Zen adherents who miss the whole point. About the 3rd time the author said "try to do good" or "follow the right path" I put it down in disgust. One cannot filter everyday experience through a lens of rules and regulations. One cannot scrutinize every action and reaction-that interfers with life and is anti-Zen. The author did seem very impressed with himself and his humility(yeah right). Don't buy it. "Zen mind, beginners mind" is still the best.
 Bringing Presence To Work December 14, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
One evening when my daughter Erin was young, and I was unusually grumpy, she looked up at me and asked, "Daddy, have you been meditating?" We both laughed and it has become a family joke ever since. Of course I hadn't been meditating. The demands of work and the rest of life had pushed my practice into the background and she noticed. My lack of patience with her, my lack of presence, was only too obvious and she called me on it.
What I realized then is that practice was changing my life, my family life and my work life too. When I practiced interactions with employees were less strained. I didn't respond so quickly out of habit and was able to deal with the ups and downs of daily business life with less effort and emotional repercussion. I was a better businessperson.
Zen is content agnostic. It isn't about family life, or work, or motorcycle maintenance, gardening, or grooming, which is why I sometimes chafe when I see the word Zen put next to some new preoccupation.
This almost kept me from ordering Marc Lesser's book Z.B.A., which would have been a loss because he's the real deal, a devoted Zen student and priest who is also an accomplished businessperson. He draws from both disciplines and we see through his candid revelations how someone who has been transformed by Zen deals with business struggles, disappointments and change. This is the living essence of right livelihood.
Now I see that some are disappointed that there isn't more business focus here. The title, with its play on MBA does suggest a master level business course, but this book is about much more than that.
My daughters are grown now and are working and I regularly listen to their worklife dilemmas, their commitments and how and where they hold back. I hope someday they read this book because Lesser shows us that Zen allows us to fully enter our lives, work and otherwise; to be present to whatever arises and to meet it with our full selves.
So I heartily recommend this book because it reminds us, as Lesser himself discovers, that there is no escape from what we bring or more tragically don't bring, to the moment. That's the real work.
 typical feel-gooder September 7, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
when you think someone has applied zen to business practices you think maybe someone has been able to put the zen into some perspective through the real world not just again put the real world into some perspective through zen. people in the real (or should i say ugly) world need to have a bridge built to get them half-way there with some new and very straight forward practices that can be applied. (so far) this book is just a reminder how everyone should practice zen - even busy business people.
Disappointing March 18, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
This was more about zen practice and ethics than it was about business administration. I was disappointed. You may not be.
Z.B.A.: Zen of Business Administration November 9, 2006
Marc's book is insightful and full of tips not just for business but for leading a better life. I really think the world would be a better place if everyone practiced his techniques.
Mo Fathelbab, President of Forum Resources Network
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