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Recommended Resources

Real Powerempty

James A. Autry & Stephen Mitchell
Real Power:
Business Lessons from the Tao Te Ching
Riverhead Books
Coming to our Sensesempty

Jon Kabat-Zinn
Coming to Our Senses
Hyperion
The Reinvention of Workempty

Matthew Fox
The Reinvention of Work:
A New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time
Harper San Francisco
Zen at Workempty

Les Kaye
Zen at Work:
A Zen Teacher's 30-Year Journey in Corporate America
Crown Publishers
Work as a Spiritual Practiceempty

Lewis Richmond
Work as a Spiritual Practice:
A Practical Buddhist Approach to Inner Growth
and Satisfaction on the Job
Broadway Books
The Heart Arousedempty

David Whyte
The Heart Aroused:
Poetry and the Preservation of Soul in Corporate America
Currency/Doubleday
Crossing the Unknown Seaempty

David Whyte
Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
Riverhead Books

Articles

Wall Street Bosses, Tiger Woods Meditate to Focus, Stay Calm
By Nadja Brandt, Bloomberg.com, October 22, 2008
(Although we are not mentioned by name in the article, we co-designed and led Google University's "Search Inside Yourself" program; Bob Shapiro is a member of our Board; and the retreat for Monsanto employees was organized by the Center)

How to succeed in business: Meditate
by Oliver Ryan, Fortune, July 20, 2007

Meditation goes to work
H.J. Cummins, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, January 20, 2006

Meditative practices promoted in workplaces
Kathleen Mellen, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Monday, February 2, 2004

Balancing Business With Buddha
Lawrence Pintak, Beliefnet.com

Out of the Monastery and Into the Boardroom
Spirituality & Health Magazine, May-June 2003

Contemplating Corporate Culture
Helen Tworkov interviews Mirabai Bush, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Summer 2001

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