Business Buddhism

Fitting in with the tribe was a life-saving necessity for our evolutionary ancestors. Still today, in many instances, it’s a decent strategy to avoid getting kicked off the team, fired from the job, ostracized by the posse or disowned by family.

It is not a strategy for innovation, personal expression, personal growth and personal fulfillment.

Maybe most importantly, making fitting-in one’s guide can have tragic moral consequences when we are in the wrong environment.

WNYC Radiolab did a fantastic piece on the Milgram experiment. You can listen to or download the podcast here and I highly recommend it:
http://www.radiolab.org/2012/jan/09/.
I will write more about it in the coming days.