Karma

Our gateway to achievement, fulfillment, and service to others is our profession. That's why people give us money to do what we do. That's why currency can buy food, housing, cars, computers, and everything else in the world. We build products and services that others get utility from, and in return we are able to ask for products and services from others.

Business, in that sense, is a spiritual activity. Those who serve the most will be considered the greatest. Maybe that prophecy is coming true today, with business at the forefront and successful businessmen becoming the role models of people in the modern world.

Yes, business requires one to be street smart, cost cutting, revenue enhancing, customer weakness exploiting, but these are superficial things, compared to the real happiness and utility that successful companies create for people. Imagine what the world today would be without Windows, Apple, Google, or Facebook? What would people do? Writing this post and making it available to readers would take ages.

There are small cons to learning to be good business persons, but the understanding that the customer needs to be understood, and served, and satisfied, and retained by giving the perception of fairness, and honesty is a great lesson. A lesson many religions wanted to teach but could not. That job is now the domain of business schools. Religions tend to teach ways of service that might be outdated, and much less pragmatic in the modern world.

To the great things that business can achieve, and to the right attitude to look at business that business schools can impart, I dedicate this post.