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  • 1.  AOM Symposium on Mindful Management

    Posted 07-12-2016 14:27

    ***Apologies for cross-postings***

     

    Inviting all scholars interested in mindful management.

     

    You are invited to attend the symposium titled "Climbing Mount Meaning: Moving from Mindless Marauding to Mindful Management" at the AOM annual meeting this year on Monday, August 8th from 4:45PM - 6:15PM at the Anaheim Convention Center, Room 203A.     

     

    This symposium presents the practices of three business practitioners, who made a difference by reinventing their careers into a meaningful calling, and thereby changed paradigms in their industries.

    The practitioners to be highlighted are:

    • Ray Anderson (Interface)
    • Muhammad Yunus (Grameen Bank), and
    • Millard Fuller (Habitat for Humanity and the Fuller Center for Housing).

    The purpose of highlighting the practices of these three individuals (two of which have already passed away) is threefold:

     

    1) to provide illustrative educational material for business students in management, leadership, or organizational behavior-related courses in order to instigate constructive paradigm shifts,

     

    2) to instigate dialogue with the symposium attendees about the reasoning and the actions of these three (and other proposed) business individuals, and

     

    3) to encourage symposium participants to share additional sample stories for all to take back to the class- and training room.

     

    Symposium facilitators:

    • Dr. Joan Marques
    • Dr. Satinder Dhiman
    • Dr. Svetlana Holt

    We welcome you to attend and share your thoughts, interests, and questions on mindful management with the panel.

     

    Please mark the date on your calendar and share the news with your colleagues.

     

    We look forward to seeing you in Anaheim!

     

    Warmest regards,

    Joan

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    "Moments of splendor and moments of gloom – they help maintain life's balance. One thought is key: they all pass..."


  • 2.  AOM Symposium on Meaningful Sustainability

    Posted 07-12-2016 15:03

    ***Apologies for cross-postings***

     

    Inviting all scholars interested in making sustainability more meaningful.

     

    You are invited to attend the symposium titled "Making Sustainability Meaningful: A Holistic Approach" at the AOM annual meeting this year on Tuesday, Aug 9th from 8:00AM - 9:30AM at Anaheim Convention Center, Room 212A.     

     

    This symposium explores the inherent relationship between sustainability and spirituality, and the role of ethical leadership in honoring and maintaining this interconnectedness. We believe that unless people's moral and spiritual qualities are nurtured and developed, the best of sustainability efforts will not work.

     

    Our political and economic thinking needs to be attuned to spirituality rather than materialism − no economics is any good that does not make sense in terms of morality. We need to refuse to treat economics and politics as if people do not matter. After all, we are "Homo moralis" and not "Homo economicus."

    We believe that the way to achieve sustainable, harmonious living in all spheres is through lived morality and spirituality at the personal level. The journey for world transformation starts indeed at the individual level.

     

    This symposium demonstrates that true ecological sustainability, in contrast to the cosmetic variety we too often see around us, depends upon our deeper understanding of fundamental spiritual values such as interconnectedness and oneness, non-violence and compassion, contribution and selfless service.

     

    Symposium facilitators:

    • Dr. Satinder K Dhiman, Woodbury University
    • Dr. Joan Marques, Woodbury University
    • Dr. Ian Mitroff, University of California, Berkeley
    • Dr. Dennis P. Heaton, Maharishi University.

    We welcome you to attend and share your thoughts, interests, and questions on meaningful sustainability with the panel.

    Please mark the date on your calendar and share the news with your colleagues.

    We look forward to seeing you in Anaheim!

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    "Moments of splendor and moments of gloom – they help maintain life's balance. One thought is key: they all pass..."