Overview
1 Marzorati, Gerald. “Strung Together: Why Rivalries in Tennis Are the Most Intense and Intimate in All of Sports.” New York Times Magazine, August 23, 2011.
2 Ibid., 32
3 “Borg to Auction off Wimbledon Trophies.” USAToday.com, March 3, 2006.
4 “McEnroe fick Borg på andra tankar.” DN Sport (in Swedish), March 28, 2006
5 Hill, Linda A. Becoming a Manager: Mastery of a New Identity. New York: Penguin Books, 1993, 19–20.
6 Ibid., 56–57
7 Ibid., 57
8 Davis, Jocelyn. The Greats on Leadership: Classic Wisdom for Modern Managers. Boston: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2016, Chapters 23–24.
9 Bohm, David. “On Dialogue.” Lecture, Ojai, California, November 6, 1989.
10 The Rig Veda, 10.129. Translated by Wendy Doniger. New York: Penguin Books, 1981, 25.
11 Tuckman, B. W. “Developmental Sequence in Small Groups.” Psychological Bulletin 63, no. 6 (1965): 384–399.
12 “The Five Stages of Project Team Development.” Project-Management.com, November 25, 2016.
Prologue
1 Sources for this brief history of Eastern thought include (in addition to the specific works cited below) translators’ introductions to the books discussed, general reference works, and information and ideas shared by faculty and my fellow students in the St. John’s College Program in Eastern Classics.
2 The Mahābhārata: The Book of the Beginning. Translated by J. A. B. van Buitenen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973, 130.
3 Lindberg, David C. The Beginnings of Western Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, 176.
4 Rubinstein, Richard E. Aristotle’s Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003, Chapter 1.
5 Chinese pronunciations are adapted from the translator’s introduction to Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone, Vol. 1, trans. David Hawkes (New York: Penguin Books, 1973), 13. Sanskrit pronunciations are adapted from Thomas Egenes, Introduction to Sanskrit, Part One (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2014), 3–11.
Chapter 1
1 Confucius. The Analects. Translated by Annping Chin. New York: Penguin Books, 2014, 43.
2 Ibid., ix.
3 Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography, Part III. In Benjamin Franklin: Writings, 1403. New York: Library of America.
4 Ibid., 1404.
5 Confucius, Analects, 280.
Chapter 2
1 Vasiṣṭha’s Yoga. Translated by Swami Venkatesananda. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993, 20.
2 Ibid., viii.
Chapter 3
1 Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings, with Selections from Traditional Commentaries. Translated by Brook Ziporyn. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 2009, 51.
2 Ibid., vii.
3 Winick, Stephen. “The World’s First ‘Kumbaya’ Moment: New Evidence About an Old Song.” Folklife Center News 32, nos. 3 and 4 (Summer/Fall 2010): 3–10.
4 4 Walker, Jillian. “Never Mind ‘Letting It Go’—Our Emotional Spectrum Is Meant to Help Us.” Elephant Journal, December 18, 2017.
Chapter 4
1 Rumi, “The Night Air.” In The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks, 30. New York: Harper Collins, 1995.
2 Ibid., xx.
3 “How to Know Another.” Dar-Al-Masnavi: The Complete Translation of Rumi’s Quatrains. www.dar-al-masnavi.org/n.a-VI-4900.html.
4 Influence: Building, Using, Sustaining. Boston: The Forum Corporation, 1982. “Using Influence,” 3.
5 Ibid., 5.
6 Rumi, “The Night Air,” xv.
Chapter 5
1 Translations of the Sāvitrī story from the Sanskrit are my own. I am indebted to St. John’s College tutor emeritus Bruce Perry for his Sanskrit glossary of the story.
2 The Mahābhārata: The Book of the Beginning. Translated by J. A. B. van Buitenen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973, xiii.
3 The Relationship Types graphic is my own. The concept of the two axes and the four types comes from Stybel, Laurence J., and Maryanne Peabody. “Friend, Foe, Ally, Adversary . . . or Something Else?” MIT Sloan Management Review 46, no. 4 (June 2005).
4 Das, Gurcharan. The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
5 Translations from the Sanskrit in this section are by J. A. B. van Buitenen; see The Mahābhārata: The Book of the Assembly Hall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975, 109–155.
6 Greene, Robert. The 48 Laws of Power. New York: Penguin Books, 2000.
Chapter 6
1 Forum Folklore. Boston: The Forum Corporation, 2000, v.
2 Ibid., 101.
3 Ibid., 85.
4 Ibid., 3.
5 Ibid., 69.
6 Sima Qian. Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty I. Translated by Burton Watson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993, 166.
7 Ibid., 91.
8 Ibid., 115.
9 Ibid., 154.
10 Sima Qian. The Grand Scribe’s Records, Volume 1: The Basic Annals of Pre-Han China. Edited by William H. Nienhauser Jr. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995, 85.
11 Sima Qian, Han Dynasty I, xiii.
12 Ibid., 176.
13 Ibid., 106.
14 Ibid., 72.
15 Ibid., 120–121.
16 Ibid., 175.
17 Kelley, Robert. The Power of Followership: How to Create Leaders People Want to Follow . . . and Followers Who Lead Themselves. New York: Doubleday, 1992, 18.
18 Ibid., 12.
19 Ibid., 26.
20 Sima Qian. Records of the Grand Historian: Qin Dynasty. Translated by Burton Watson. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993, 43.
21 Ibid., 46.
22 Ibid., 55.
23 Ibid., 80.
Chapter 7
1 Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji. Translated by Edward Seidensticker. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992, 668.
2 Ibid., v.
3 Ibid., 7.
4 Ibid., 668.
5 Williams, Joan C., and Rachel Dempsey. What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know. New York: New York University Press, 2014, Chapter 5.
6 Murasaki, Tale of Genji, 406.
7 Ibid., 403.
Chapter 8
1 Gandhi, M. K. “Hind Swaraj.” In Hind Swaraj and Other Writings, edited by Anthony J. Parel, 71. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
2 Ibid., xxvi.
3 Ibid., xxviii.
4 Ibid., 26.
5 Ibid., 27.
6 Ibid., 38.
7 Hougaard, Rasmus, and Jacqueline Carter. The Mind of the Leader: How to Lead Yourself, Your People, and Your Organization for Extraordinary Results. Cambridge: Harvard Business Review Press, 2018, Chapter 1.
8 Ibid., Chapter 2.
9 The Tale of the Heike. Translated by Helen Craig McCullough. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1988, 23.
10 Greene, Robert. The 48 Laws of Power. New York: Penguin Books, 2000, Preface.
11 Gandhi, “Hind Swaraj,” 71.
12 Ibid., 97.
Chapter 9
1 Early Buddhist Discourses. Edited and translated by John J. Holder. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2006, 43.
2 Ibid., 178.
3 Ibid., 43.
4 Ibid., 43.
5 Collins, Jim. Good to Great. New York: HarperCollins, 2001, 164.
6 Ibid., 176.
7 O’Hara, Roshi Pat Enkyo. “An Introduction to Zen.” Upaya Institute and Zen Center. www.upaya.org/teachings/what-is-zen/ (accessed September 2018).
8 Early Buddhist Discourses, 26.
9 Amabile, Teresa, and Steven Kramer, The Progress Principle. Cambridge: Harvard Business Review Press, 2011, Chapter 2.
10 Early Buddhist Discourses, 186.
Chapter 10
1 Mencius. Translated by David Hinton. Berkeley: Counterpoint Press, 1998, 48.
2 Ibid., 48.
3 Ibid., xxi.
4 Ibid., xxii.
5 Ibid., 138.
6 Ibid., 48–49.
7 Ibid., 141.
8 Davis, Jocelyn R., Henry M. Frechette, and Edwin H. Boswell. Strategic Speed: Mobilize People, Accelerate Execution. Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2010. Other major contributors to the research and contents were Tom Atkinson, Steve Barry, Ed Myers, and Maggie Walsh.
9 Ibid., 17.
10 Ibid., 10–11.
11 Sima Qian. The Grand Scribe’s Records: The Basic Annals of Pre-Han China. Edited by William H. Nienhauser Jr. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994, 32.
12 Ibid., 22.
13 Amabile, Teresa, and Steven Kramer, The Progress Principle. Cambridge: Harvard Business Review Press, 2011, Chapter 6.
14 Mencius, 166.
15 Ibid., 4.
Chapter 11
1 Dōgen. “Tenzo Kyōkun: Instructions for the Cook.” Translated by T. Griffith Foulk. Soto Translation Project. www.pvzen.org/biblioteca/Textos/tenzokyokun-eng.pdf.
2 Dōgen, “Instructions for the Tenzo.” In Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dōgen, translated by Arnold Kotler and Kazuaki Tanahashi, 53–66. New York: North Point Press, 1985.
Chapter 12
1 Ibn Tufayl, Abū Bakr. Hayy Ibn Yaqzān. Translated by Lenn Evan Goodman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003, 101.
2 Ibid., 3.
3 Ibid., 4–5.
4 Godin, Seth. The Dip: A Little Book that Teaches You When to Quit and When to Stick. New York: Portfolio, 2007.
5 Streep, Peg. “8 Ways You Can Tell that It’s the Right Time to Quit.” Psychology Today. Last modified January 6, 2015.
6 Ibn Tufayl, Hayy Ibn Yaqzān, 82.
Epilogue
1 Laozi, Tao Te Ching. Translated by D. C. Lau. New York: Penguin Books, 1963, Verse 81.