Comments on: Management as a priesthood

By: Roundup: Virtual business, legislating corporate responsibility, subliminal suggestion, male and female brain differrences | Managing Leadership | Managing Leadership

Fri, 30 May 2008 16:26:53 +0000

[...] most recently in this post: Social engineering and genius, but also in a popular series about Karma Capitalism. And we’ll get to hear more on this topic soon enough: according to this WSJ item, the [...]

By: The difficulty in applying formal ethics programs in the corporate world | Managing Leadership | Managing Leadership

Tue, 27 May 2008 14:57:05 +0000

[...] If you are interested in this general topic, I encourage you to view the 5-part series on “Karma Capitalism.” [...]

By: The glue that holds a corporate structure together | Managing Leadership | Managing Leadership

Sat, 10 May 2008 15:55:29 +0000

[...] Management as a priesthood [...]

By: The bases of corporate structure and governance | Managing Leadership

The bases of corporate structure and governance | Managing Leadership — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:50:13 +0000

[...] In last Thursday’s post, we reviewed the key elements of ‘Karma Capitalism” as identified by its proponents. They were, in brief, that: [...]

By: Classic liberal capitalism and organizational design | Managing Leadership

Classic liberal capitalism and organizational design | Managing Leadership — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:47:21 +0000

[...] In the course of examining the emerging management approach that has been referred to as “Karma Capitalism” (please see the 2 and 6 November 2006 posts), we have been trying to test it against two questions that should give us an idea of how robust a system of thought this really is. [...]

By: The value of liberal capitalism as a basis for corporate design | Managing Leadership

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:44:21 +0000

[...] Capitalism gets a bad rap these days - even from people who believe in it, or who, at least, acknowledge the pointlessness of denying its fundamental veracity as a means of explaining and predicting human economic behavior. The Karma Capitalists, whose thinking we have reviewed and critiqued over the past several posts, are only one of a panoply of attempts to rectify the presumed shortcomings of capitalism. As it happens, these efforts all typically fall short, themselves, in two ways. A clue to both of these is hidden in one of the purpose statements of Karma Capitalism (please see the 02NOV06 post): The key point is to put purpose before self. This is absolutely applicable to corporate leadership today. [...]

By: Women at work | Managing Leadership

Women at work | Managing Leadership — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:20:41 +0000

[...] After all, who can determine what “fair” is, in the larger scheme of things? Indeed, the debates about this are often all the more confusing because people are contesting with each other on the same stage, and even using the same jargon, but are arguing from positional frameworks that are miles apart. (Please see here for an elaboration of this in the context of “Karma Capitalism”) [...]

By: Roundup: Bosses, Boards, and Bandwagons | Managing Leadership

Roundup: Bosses, Boards, and Bandwagons | Managing Leadership — Thu, 24 May 2007 06:42:34 +0000

[...] Finally, take a look at this WSJ piece from earlier this week that reports the results of a study of corporate tuition assistance programs. Some advisors discourage such benefits, fearing that they simply encourage beneficiaries to cut and run for better-paying jobs once the courses are paid for. It turns out, though, as many of us suspected, that these programs increase loyalty; employees who use such programs are only about half as likely to leave a firm after 5 years as those who do not use them. This is a sort of “Karma Capitalism” that really does return to benefit you. [...]