Your comments are valuable. I hear your concern about how applicable the principles are in current market situations.

I posted these principles here because I think they make a lot of sense even in today’s situation. It may be hard to follow them, so one needs to apply them per his own situation.

One of the biggest teachings of Buddha is the “balance”. Not tightening the string so much that it breaks and not letting it lose such that it does not even play! Go for the balance!

Thanks!

i read your summary of thoughts based on “What would Buddha do at work”. these are nice thoughts and it’s value gets unleashed when they get implemented/imbibed in people.

However in practical scenario i rarely find people who can abide by all these unconventional rules. At any point of time we would be flouting our own rules, own benchmarks, own tolerance levels.

One of the thoughts you shared was

Start work before the boss gets in, and leave after she does.

i do not completely agree. I believe as long as i am doing my work right and am delivering on my bosses /business expectation i need not worry when i come to work or when my boss leaves office. just surfacing ourselves as a sincere and hard worker does not always work.

Sharing our organisation’s practice:-
In our organisation at least we have the flexibility to work at our timings as long as work does not suffer. all employees work on five principles or what we call is ‘values’. they are

1/ Courageous
2/ Responsive
3/ International
4/ Creative
5/ Trustworthy

these are the values which are taught again and again and embedded in the employees

If we talk about under promise and over deliver- this has many connotations

this has direct link to our job objectives. How many employers would agree on a under statement (under promise) made by an employer to meet the targets. in today’s competitive industry the objectives are always SMART (Specific, Measurable, Agreed, Realistic and Time bound). To over deliver on these objectives is what we call is a really good performance. This projects the real talent of an individual to excel in tough situations

So the questions is in today’s world do we have a choice to under promise ourselves?

To summarise I loved reading the thoughts but these thoughts need to be more flexible and dynamic and can be applied on a case to case basis & can be situation specific