Z.B.A.: Zen of Business Administration - How Zen Practice Can Transform Your Work And Your Life by Marc Lesser provides right thinking as applied to the business world.
Marc Lesser is a business coach and a former entrepreneur. There are two steps to thinking: step 1 is when the thought arises, step 2 is intention.
Buddhism is a prescription to transform suffering to happiness and ease. In order to do this, one learns to have an open heart in all situations. Lesser writes that work can be seen as an adventure where one discovers that work does not need to be ordinary or mundane, separate from the rest of life.
He poses the following questions in order to assist someone to see work as a means to integrate dreams, desires, inner peace, compassion rather than just career goals and technical understandings: What is it that you are sure of? What are you doing? Are your intentions a habit? Are your intentions cultivating understanding?
To carry out intentions at work, one needs to see that fear is in everyone, understand whether a chosen profession came from accommodating others or society expectations, whether one is giving gifts to others through his/her work, whether work is an expression of love and the taking care of others, and whether in work, one is able to help others find freedoms or ways out of their fears.
Intentions affects energies and focus. One is able to make the world he/she lives in and change by design rather than default.
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