Book description
Imagine the leaders of one of New York City’s top real-estate firms coming together every Monday morning to hear…the moral and spiritual thoughts of a Rabbi. Wouldn’t you like to be a fly on the wall? To hear the paths Alan Lurie traced for his listeners, how he helped them bring together their spiritual and business lives, the sacred and the profane? Five Minutes on Mondays compiles these talks for the first time, sharing Lurie’s deep and profound inspiration on the challenges we all face–at work, and in life.
Lurie draws on millennia of philosophy, theology, and science to help us answer our deepest questions, comfort our deepest yearnings, and become better people–more connected to each other, and to the Greater Purpose.
• Prosper while keeping your integrity
• Balance faith, honor, and ambition
• Use your workplace as your moral and spiritual "gymnasium"
• Find deeper meaning and purpose in your work
• Face your fears and failures, and keep going
• Gain real respect–and give it
• Live one authentic life–at work, and everywhere else
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Donkey for Sale: Ethical Wealth
- Justice on the Train: Offering Criticism
- Try Them, Try Them: Developing Persistence
- Door Openers: Spiritual Leadership
- Who Needs You?: Working Together
- Listen Up: Effective Listening
- I Don’t Know: Respectful Conversation
- In the Beginning: Keeping Resolutions
- Prelude to Disaster: Building Confidence
- Eureka!: Using Intuition
- Something Creative: Accessing Creativity
- Do You Mean It?: Discovering Meaning
- You’re Finished!: Embracing Change
- Alone on the Sofa: Finding Truth
- The Superior Object: Resolving Conflicts of Interest
- Hey, You Screwed Up Again!: Transforming Mistakes
- Making Stuff Up: Reacting Objectively
- Waiting for Nobel: Overcoming Feelings of Inadequacy
- Self, Actually: Being Authentic
- Return That Call: Enlightened Self-Interest
- So, a Horse Walks into a Bar...: Taking Time for Laughter
- What If?: Facing Fear
- The Aim of Existence: Cultivating Happiness
- The No Negativity Event: Living with Optimism
- A Thankfully Short Message: Living with Gratitude
- The Power of Three: Living with Balance
- Take a Breath: Directed Meditation
- Go Forth: Starting on the Spiritual Journey
- The Lonely Man: Balancing Faith and Ambition
- What’s in Your Pocket?: Integrating Opposites
- Bad Banker: Living in Abundance
- Index
Product information
- Title: Five Minutes on Mondays: Finding Unexpected Purpose, Peace, and Fulfillment at Work
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2009
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 9780137011643
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