WHAT IS, MORE THAN WHAT MIGHT BE

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

Epicurus, 300 BC Greek philosopher

I can't imagine better advice.

Work hard for what you hope will be, accepting what comes, all the while enjoying what is.

YOU HAVE A CHOICE, THIS IS IT

"To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us."

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) British essayist.

You can fight aging (ageing if you prefer), many do, all unsuccessfully.

Or you can embrace the process taking advantage of the good that comes each year you live.

What'll it be for you?

THE PHILOSOPHY OF BUSINESS

"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."

Henry Miller 

20th century American author

Which well sums up the creative thinking process in business.

Of course we're too "buttoned down" to call it philosophy.

Much better to use terms such as "strategic vision".

Call it what you will it is the conception of something new (genuine philosophy) that leads to a plan (action), which in turn becomes something great (wonder).

"Enduring fact of mystery? Beats me.

The Business Philosopher

"Philosophy always requires something more, requires the external, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment."

Soren Kierkegaard

19th century Danish philosopher

Isn't that the essence of what business managers strive to achieve?

Philosophically Speaking . . .

"Many talk like philosophers but act like fools."

Proverb

Most likely, we all do at one time or another, hopefully by accident rather than purposely.

But you still need philosophy in your approach to business.

What's yours?

Management Philosophy: Theory or Practice?

"True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what it is."

Victor Cousin
Mid 19th Century French Philosopher

What is the role of philosophy in business?

Is it limited to statements of ethics and social responsibility?

If philosophy has a place in business, at what level(s) of the organization?

Philosophically, what do you think?