Mastering Successful Work (Skillful Means)

Mastering Successful Work by Tarthang Tulku, was created to help readers live cheerfully, work with good results, and profit from knowledge in any circumstance. Offering clear, powerful guidance on how to make work into a path of transformation and dynamic realization, Mastering Successful Work sets forth principles and practices that apply to almost everyone and to virtually every discipline. For those who have been successful, it offers opportunities to discover a quality in work that gives a new sense of meaning. 

This book shows how to make work into a path of realization and transformation- an art form that blends practical results, deep enjoyment, and inner fulfillment. It presents a step by step approach to cutting through obstacles, developing our inner resources (awareness, concentration, and energy), and getting inspiring results that benefit everyone. Immensely practical, Mastering Successful Work includes over 80 exercises, most of which can be done on the job. Accessible to everyone, but meditators who have wondered how to apply meditation to work will find much value here. 

Part One sets forth central themes of knowledge, time, and awareness. 

Part Two introduces structures for accomplishment: paying attention, taking responsibility, discipline, communication, and sharing knowledge. 

Part Three presents exercises for transforming attitudes and approaches: recognizing and overcoming negative patterns. 

Part Four includes more advanced supplemental exercises, leading up to tools for transformation, and concluding with a list of good business practices. Together, the motivation chapters and the exercises have a structure and progression that can be followed by individuals working on their own or incorporated into Skillful Means seminars and programs. 

This is a companion volume to Skillful Means, by the same author.

Tarthang Tulku was born in 1935 in the highlands of Golok and educated by some of the most brilliant masters of his tradition, Tarthang Tulku is a pioneering teacher whose life bridges ancient wisdom and modernity. Left a refugee after the 1959 annexation of Tibet, he taught at Sanskrit University in Varanasi before coming to America in 1968, where he has established major educational, publishing, and cultural preservation projects―including the World Peace Ceremony in India and the free distribution of millions of books to the Tibetan diaspora. Author of nearly forty works translated into eighteen languages and studied in universities worldwide, he offers a vision that continues to awaken hearts and minds with timeless wisdom for modern life.