What can a business leader learn from the Dalai Lama?
Well, unfortunately His Holiness wasn’t available for an interview, but we did talk to author and executive coach Scott Eblin, who saw him perform to a crowd of 20,000 people on the West Lawn of the White House in Washington.
In his Next Level blog Scott says he picked up at least three learnings for executives wanting to improve their communications technique:
The biggest mistake people make is looking externally for happiness. Happiness starts with a calm and peaceful mind.
Too much formality creates barriers to communicating on a person to person basis. We should practice heart to heart interaction instead.
Warm-heartedness leads to self confidence. Humans are social animals. We need to interact. Self-centredness is counter to true human nature.
In this edition of BTalk we discuss these and other take-outs. If you want to see more of the Dalai Lama, catch him on this episode of Masterchef (Australia). Gets about doesn’t he?
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Bouncing Back from Failure
What do you do if your business fails? For many people the collapse of a business is felt with the sadness of losing a relative, mixed with the shame of failure.
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Earnings up, Aussie confidence on a roll, oil shoots higher
The strength in the Aussie, weakening of the US dollar and a rise in bond yields are all part of the reflation trade, back in earnest, says NAB’s David de Garis on today’s Morning Call podcast.
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Strong market reaction as Fed changes nothing
The market reacted sharply to the FOMC meeting today, even though there was nothing new. NAB’s Gavin Friend says this shows how divided opinions are right now and many were expecting more.
