Readable in fifty-eight minutes: Traditional Eastern wisdom and real-life business experience come together in this brief and practical guide, which offers a step-by-step plan that will help readers adopt a more successful way of working and living. KARMIC MANAGEMENT is a little book with a revolutionary message. It turns traditional business mentality on its head by stating simply that helping others become successful—suppliers, customers, even competitors—is the real key to success in life as well as in business. Drawing from their own entrepreneurial experiences, the authors explain how, in eight basics steps that take less than one hour in total , readers can learn to apply KARMIC MANAGEMENT to meet goals, both personal and professional. Each lesson opens with a quotation from a Buddhist text and explains how it applies to life and work in the twenty-first century. The authors show readers how to identify the things that aren’t working for them, discover their most valuable assets, and use their new insights to improve the lives of others. To-do lists throughout the book provide practical tools and exercises, and real-life examples highlight the power of KARMIC MANAGEMENT to make dreams come true. GESHE MICHAEL ROACH has been a teacher of Buddhism since 1981 and also worked as a director of a large diamond company. He is the author of The Diamond Cutter, The Garden and The Tibetan Book of Yoga and coauthor of The Essential Yoga Sutra, How Yoga Works and The Eastern Path to Heaven. He founded and directs the Asian Classics Institute, the Asian Classics Input Project and Diamond Mountain University in Arizona. LAMA CHRISTIE McNALLY is the cofounder of the Yoga Studies Institute and Diamond Mountain University, Arizona, author of The Tibetan Book of Meditation and the coauthor of The Essential Yoga Sutra, How Yoga Works and The Eastern Path to Heaven . MICHAEL GORDON is the founder and CEO of Bumble & Bumble, a $230-million-a-year hair-products corporation. THE FACTORY, THE UNIVERSITY, AND THE HAIR SALON The boss has put together a project team of 12 people and made you project manager. The task: Get 100,000 units of the new product out the door, and sold through, within six months--starting today. Or maybe your spouse has decided that the kitchen needs remodeling, and you've got one month to get it done. Maybe you've just given yourself the job of losing five pounds by next Monday. The 100,000 units could be books or pizzas or online software sales; it doesn't really matter. The point is that a specific project or task has to get done by a certain date. And you're responsible to see that it does get done, on time. Let's face it, life is one long string of jobs. We need a way to get them done right; we need a surefire recipe for success. Financial success, sure--that's what we're talking about. But at the same time we want to be a success as a person: a good person, a truly happy person, a person who's mentally and physically healthy. And if we're doing things right we also help all the people around us--the world--at the same time. This little book gives you a completely new way of getting tasks and projects done. It's not something you've ever heard of before, but it works--it always works. Give it a try. All you need to invest is an hour of your time. We believe that if an idea is right, it can be explained in just a few words--and then the rest is up to you. We'll be taking you through the Eight Rules of Karmic Management, proving to you how what goes around really does come around, in both your business and your life. We always start with a quote from one of the ancient books of wisdom that provide the source for Karmic Management. Although these books come from many different places, they all ended up in Tibet and for a thousand years helped build her priceless culture of wisdom. A radical new business approach that has survived a millennium's test of time. And so first you'll be seeing a pearl like this one, from the 6th-century Buddhist sage named Chandra Kirti: Then we go on to explain how the quote is going to help you get the 100,000 pizzas out on time and become the star of your company (or your home, which is sometimes harder). We think that a book about how to be a success should be written by people who are already successful, and so every now and then you'll see a little box like the one that follows, with a real-life story about how we ourselves used a KM rule to reach our own goals: Real Life LAMA CHRISTIE: I was trained in the Eight Rules of Karmic Management from day one, at the Asian Classics Institute of New York. My dream was to help build a new kind of university, one that made a real difference in the world. And KM has done the job. We started with no money at all, and our Diamond Mountain University is now up and running on a beautiful one-thousand-acre campus nestled in the foothills of southern Arizona. We have several hundred students from all five contine