AUTHOR
Lloyd has been writing about management practices and leadership behaviour for over 30 years. His works have been published in Canadian and international journals and magazines.
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Lloyd has also published two books. Business and The Buddha: Doing Well by Doing Good© will be published in September 2007 by Wisdom Publications, Boston. His first book, Unions Are Not Inevitable! A Guide to Positive Employee Relations© , is in its fourth edition and has been a bestseller since the first edition was published in 1978. A fifth edition will be published by Brock Learning Resources in 2007 and will be co-authored with Pam McCartney, President, Performance House Ltd .
WHY DID LLOYD WRITE “Business and The Buddha: Doing Well by Doing Good”©?
Lloyd wrote Business and The Buddha© because of his belief that the manner in which we both knowingly and unknowingly practise free enterprise has contributed to many of society’s ills, such as war, poverty, and disease. Lloyd believes that free enterprise, or capitalism, does not need to be viewed as problematic, and can instead become a vehicle for resolving human suffering. One does not need to change free enterprise per se, only to alter its direction.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, economist and philosopher Adam Smith did not include concern for human values in his model of a capitalist economy, and society has continued to follow his lead and to see the results. An economy that adopts a neutral position when it comes to human values is ripe for suffering. Buddhist wisdom offers a solution.
Lloyd researched and wrote Business and the Buddha© in order to demonstrate that our culture’s propensity for greed, excess, and even hatred is not inevitable, but is a choice. This book will offer those who are suffering a way out so that they can enjoy their life, their families, their career, and their workplace to the fullest.
WHAT DOES THE BOOK OFFER THE READER?
Business and the Buddha© (to be released in October 2007) examines business practices through the lens of Buddhist thought; a set of ethical principles that has informed Lloyd’s life for almost two decades. He asks the question, “What if we took a different approach to the ailing workplace?”
According to Buddhist thinking, everything is in a state of constant change, and this includes free enterprise, or capitalism. Lloyd explains that, while we do not have control over the fact that capitalism is constantly changing, we are able to control the direction of its momentum.
Lloyd argues that the choices society has made are consistent with the unrestricted nature of free enterprise (globalization, for example), and explains the manner in which these choices have affected societies in both the developed and developing worlds. Lloyd believes leaders can change organizations for the better and improve the day-to-day lives of millions of people. How? By shifting the focus from how organizations are currently operating to examining the ways they can create good in the world while still making a reasonable profit.
Business and the Buddha© leads us through an exploration of the Buddha’s first teaching, The Four Noble Truths, and from this we begin to see greed, excess, hatred, and the Buddhist notion of permanence as causes for both individual and societal suffering. When we address the causes of suffering, we more clearly understand the relationship between free enterprise and the ills that affect all of us. Furthermore, the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path offers a model for ethical conduct on which to base modern free enterprise practices.
Business and the Buddha© offers today’s business leaders a new way of thinking (a sea change) and a model for changing capitalism, of which the central premise is the need to include human values in our economic model.
You can weigh in on the issue!
The Business and the Buddha© web site (to be coordinated with the book’s launch) will offer a forum in which to discuss issues related to altering our current business practices. Lloyd will be an active participant in these web-based discussions.
Endorsements
Business and the Buddha© has already received a number of high profile endorsements. These include:
His Holiness The Dalai Lama Business and the Buddha© .www.dalailama.com
Venerable Master Hsing Yun www.blia.org www.uwest.edu
Dr. Ari T. Ariyaratne www.sarvodaya.org
WHY DID LLOYD WRITE A BOOK ABOUT REMAINING UNION-FREE?
Unions are not Inevitable! A Guide to Positive Employee Relations© , now in is fourth edition, represents the core of Lloyd’s management consulting and training practice since 1975. The book’s title has proven to be intriguing to many; however, it should be noted that neither Lloyd nor his book are anti-union. The position taken is that if employers build their employee relations practices on dignity, trust, respect, and integrity, employees will see little, if any, need for a union.
Unions are not Inevitable!© continues to be referred to as the ‘bible’ on positive employee relations. In the book, Lloyd explains that unions sell negotiation and representation services to employees. In exchange, employees garner a degree of power that they would not acquire on an individual level. Lloyd explains that this need for power represents a clear indication of employee dissatisfaction; namely, that management does not treat employees as they would other key stakeholders in their enterprise.
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Winning the Certification Vote©
Lloyd also wrote Winning the Certification Vote© to help managers prepare for the possibility of a union organizing drive. This workbook outlines in detail the steps a Human Resource department should take before the first union flyer or contact from union representatives is made.
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Four billion people currently live and die on $2 or less each day. Add to this the consequences of corporate greed as they affect millions of North Americans, and the fact that, in the United States (the wealthiest nation in the world), 35 million people live at or below the poverty line. Clearly, as the rich become richer the poor become, both qualitatively and quantitatively, poorer. Fueled by a desire to contribute to the global discussion on how to alter this horrendous situation, Lloyd wrote Business and the Buddha© to review “old” capitalism and, in the process, offer an alternate vision for the way in which business can and should be practised in the Western world.
Business and the Buddha© (to be released in October 2007) examines business practices through the lens of Buddhist thought; a set of ethical principles that has informed Lloyd’s life for almost two decades. He asks the question, “What if we took a different approach to the ailing workplace?”
Unions are not Inevitable! A Guide to Positive Employee Relations©, now in is fourth edition, represents the core of Lloyd’s management consulting and training practice since 1975. The book’s title has proven to be intriguing to many; however, it should be noted that neither Lloyd nor his book are anti-union. The position taken is that if employers build their employee relations practices on dignity, trust, respect, and integrity, employees will see little, if any, need for a union.
Winning the Certification Vote©
